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.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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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 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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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 ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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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