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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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 am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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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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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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