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 CLEARYChildren should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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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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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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