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.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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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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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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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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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