When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

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!

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

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

People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

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