I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a cla….

Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent,….

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books..

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it..

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

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 swashbu….

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted..

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did r….

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

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