Beverly Cleary

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. ”

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

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. ”

I rarely read children's books. ”

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

Children want to do what grownups do. ”

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. ”

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

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. ”

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses. ”