The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
BEVERLY CLEARYI wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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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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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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