Quotes by : Richard Peck

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

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.

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

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

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.