Beverly Cleary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.