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 CLEARYI had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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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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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 feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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Problem solving, and I don’t mean algebra, seems to be my life’s work. Maybe it’s everyone’s life’s work.
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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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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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