Top 50 Quotes by Beverly Cleary

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.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

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.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

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.

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.

I'm just lucky. I do have very clear memories of childhood. I find that many people don't, but I'm just very fortunate that I have that kind of memory.