Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
BEVERLY CLEARYI think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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 grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
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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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The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
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With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
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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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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 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 wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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