At last she said, "Them Burdicks isn't worth the powder…

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

— Richard Peck

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

— Richard Peck

“Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”

— Richard Peck

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,…

— Richard Peck

Only the nonreader fears books.

— Richard Peck

...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…

— Richard Peck

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

— Richard Peck

“The Shambaughs came, bringing Letty. She simpered up to me. Her eyes summed up the lace tippets on my Princess dress and the wide…

— Richard Peck

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

— Richard Peck

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

— Richard Peck

“I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody; I read because the words that…

— Richard Peck

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…

— Richard Peck

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

— Richard Peck

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

— Richard Peck

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

— Richard Peck