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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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 was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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 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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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