I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
BEVERLY CLEARYThe key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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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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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.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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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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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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