Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
BEVERLY CLEARYMy mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
-
-
Children want to do what grownups do.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
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.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
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.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
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.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
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 CLEARY -
I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
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.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
BEVERLY CLEARY -
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
BEVERLY CLEARY