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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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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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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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 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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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