All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
BEVERLY CLEARYI was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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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.
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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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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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