Quotes by : 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....

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

Only the nonreader fears books.

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

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot....

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

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

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

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

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