I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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If you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
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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 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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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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 was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.
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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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