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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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 had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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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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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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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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