I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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 read my books aloud before they were published.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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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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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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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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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 don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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