Beverly Cleary Quotations

I read my books aloud before they were published.

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

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

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

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

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

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake

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

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