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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.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

I read my books aloud before they were published.

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.

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even carry on a telephone conversation with any privacy

I think adults sometimes don't think about how children are feeling about the adult problems.

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

I know this is probably sort of sudden." The boy hesitated. "But I was wodnering if you would care to go to the movies with me tomorrow night.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Ralph really felt sorry for the boy, hampered as he was by his youth and his mother.

Well, she thought, I'm certainly bright. She had wanted to meet a new boy and when she finally did meet one she didn't even find out his name

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.

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

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

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

Oh well, thought Jane, that's how men are. He's probably taking it for granted. She found it very pleasant to be taken for granted by Stan

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

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

most beautiful, magic time of the whole year. Her parents loved her, and she loved them,

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.

Children want to do what grownups do.

Words were so puzzling. Present should mean a present just as attack should mean to stick tacks in people.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks, chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Amy thought a moment. How could they get rid of their mother? We could have her away taking care of a sick neighbor, and we are all alone in the house

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.

Say, who is this Mr. King?" "What Mr. King?" asked Ramona, walking into his trap. "Nosmo King,

I am sort of medium ... I guess you could call me the mediumest boy in the class. -Leigh Botts

If she can't spell, she shouldn't be a librarian.

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

Poor Miss Binney, dressed like Mother Goose, now had the responsibility of sixty-eight boys and girls.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

If they had been riding in a car, she would have waited for him to go around and open the door for her, but riding in a truck is different

They wiped his paws on a good bath towel whenever he came in with wet feet, because they had not been married long enough to have an old bath towel,

And now I'm going to find out how to get a library started.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.

I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

She would not have hurt the old man's feelings for anything in the world.

I guess that's what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn't. But it is all right.

Ellen might have known her best friend would think of something like that.

I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.

And the muscles of his scrawny arms Are strong as rubber bands.

In seventh grade ... I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

I am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

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.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

Uncle Avery, who was not only postmaster but mayor of Pitchfork as well.

I was a librarian.