Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found 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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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