I don't ever go on the Internet. I don't even know how it works.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

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.

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

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

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