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.
BEVERLY CLEARYWith 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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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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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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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 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 enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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 was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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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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