Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents’ Night.
BEVERLY CLEARYThe 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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.
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Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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