Source: Ramona Quimby, age 8
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“Ramona did not know what to say. She did not feel words like darling or adorable fitted this baby.”
Source: Ramona Forever
Source: Ramona the Pest
Source: Ramona and Her Father
Source: Ramona the Brave
Source: Ramona the Pest
Source: Strider
“Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.”
Source: Ramona Quimby, age 8
“The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.”
“If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.”
Source: Ramona's world
Source: Ramona Quimby, age 8
“Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?”
Source: The Mouse and the motorcycle
Source: Strider
“I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.”
Source: Ramona the Pest
“She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.”
Source: Ramona 3-Book Collection: Ramona the Pest, Beezus and Ramona, Ramona the Brave
“If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.”
“I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.”
“I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.”
“Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.”
“My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.”
“As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.”
“What interests me is what children go through while growing up.”
“People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.”