All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

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

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

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.

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

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 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.