Children want to do what grownups do.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write 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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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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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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He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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