Richard Peck Quotes

Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

Richard Peck

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

Richard Peck

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

Richard Peck

Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

Richard Peck

As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

Richard Peck

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

Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.

Richard Peck

Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.

Richard Peck

Only the nonreader fears books.

Richard Peck

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

Richard Peck

[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

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

Richard Peck