Behind you Quote by Richard Peck Download Open image “The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.” — Richard Peck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Behind you Behinds Bridges Bridges Burning Burning Light Light Bridges Way Way Write Write Write Light Writer Writing
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well. — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing. — John Sandford Copy Share Image
One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Strong families use the word "we" a lot, but "I" is never forgotten. Family members know they have the freedom to go off on… — Joyce Brothers Copy Share Image
For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting out. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Copy Share Image
I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Leave your yawns behind you and feel the tiny new breeze of life lighting up inside of you. — Tao Porchon-Lynch Copy Share Image
Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ.… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
When you become angry, you enter a tunnel, leaving the light behind you; when you get calm, you exit the tunnel, finding the light… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
What has happened has happened and it is now behind you. Take the best of it all as you move positively forward. — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself -- or at… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
