Richard Peck Quotes

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• I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.
• We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
• Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
• I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.
• I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.
• Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood...
• Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.
• With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.
• September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took…
• I read.. because one life is not enough
• That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big…
• Only the nonreader fears books.
• But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.
• We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
• The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.
• 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.
• Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
• ...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 run…
• [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…
• Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

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