Richard Peck Quotes

Only the nonreader fears books.

I read.. because one life is not enough

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

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

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

[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.

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

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

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.

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.