I read my books aloud before they were published.

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

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

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

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

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

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.