Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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.
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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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