We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

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.

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

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

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

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.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.