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Inspirational Quotes by Richard Peck
- We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
- I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.
- 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.
- I read.. because one life is not enough
- Only the nonreader fears books.
- We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
- Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
- If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.
- If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.
- Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.
- This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's…
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