The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
BEVERLY CLEARYI was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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