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 hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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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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In seventh grade…I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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