Richard Peck famous quotes

03-24-2025

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
-- Richard Peck

#Writing #Bridges #Light
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.
-- Richard Peck

#Book #Pages #Enough
Only the nonreader fears books.
-- Richard Peck

#Book
We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
-- Richard Peck

#Writing #Light #Stories
If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.
-- Richard Peck

#Finding Yourself #Pages
We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
-- Richard Peck

#Writing #Wonder
When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.
-- Richard Peck

#Book #Leaving #World
September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.
-- Richard Peck

#Children #Home #Waiting
The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.
-- Richard Peck

#Years #Mary #Faster
That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.
-- Richard Peck

#Eye #Heart #Decision
But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.
-- Richard Peck

#Moving #Two #Together
I read.. because one life is not enough
-- Richard Peck

#Life Is #Enough
Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.
-- Richard Peck

#Grandma #Cutting #Necks
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
-- Richard Peck

#Mother #Communication #Writing
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
-- Richard Peck

#Thinking #Cities #Towns
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.
-- Richard Peck

#Wings #Bird #Fixing
Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood...
-- Richard Peck

#Struggle #Voice #Wilson
Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.
-- Richard Peck

#Funny Things #Secret #Fame
With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.
-- Richard Peck

#Drama #World #Plain Speaking
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.
-- Richard Peck

#Humorous #Gone #Sound
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.
-- Richard Peck

#Morning #Children #Book
This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.
-- Richard Peck

#Simple #Hands
Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.
-- Richard Peck

#School #Finishing #Finishing School
If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.
-- Richard Peck

#Simple #Mind
Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
-- Richard Peck

#Reader
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.
-- Richard Peck

#Grandma #Oil #World
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
-- Richard Peck

#New Beginnings #Adults #Ever After
...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.
-- Richard Peck

#Running #Four #Trouble
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready
-- Richard Peck

#Towns #Want #These Days

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