I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
BEVERLY CLEARYI am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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