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

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.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.