Richard Peck Quotes

• The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

  Richard Peck

  Writing, Light, Bridges

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• I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

  Richard Peck

  Book, Pages, Enough

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• Only the nonreader fears books.

  Richard Peck

  Book

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• We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

  Richard Peck

  Writing, Light, Stories

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• 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

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• We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

  Richard Peck

  Writing, Wonder, Knows

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• When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

  Richard Peck

  Book, Leaving, World

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• 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, Ifs

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• 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

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• Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

  Richard Peck

  Reader

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• 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

  Richard Peck (2000). “A Long Way From Chicago: A Novel in Stories”, p.11, Penguin

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• [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

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• 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

  Richard Peck (2000). “A Year Down Yonder”

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• ...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

  Richard Peck (2010). “A Season of Gifts”, p.25, Penguin

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• 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

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• Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

  Richard Peck

  Mother, Communication, Writing

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• I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

  Richard Peck

  Humorous, Sound, Gone

  Richard Peck (1996). “Father Figure”, p.69, Penguin

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• I read.. because one life is not enough

  Richard Peck

  Life Is, Enough

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• If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

  Richard Peck

  Simple, Mind, Ifs

  Richard Peck (2002). “A Year Down Yonder”, p.31, Penguin

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• But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

  Richard Peck

  Moving, Two, Together

  Richard Peck (2006). “Here lies the librarian”

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• 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

  Want, Towns, These Days

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• Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

  Richard Peck

  School, Finishing, Finishing School

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• I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

  Richard Peck

  Wings, Bird, Fixing

  Richard Peck (2005). “The River Between Us”, p.42, Penguin

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• With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

  Richard Peck

  Drama, World, Shannon

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• Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

  Richard Peck

  Funny Things, Secret, Fame

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