43 Quotes by Richard Peck

Only the nonreader fears books.

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

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

[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 be lived.

I am here to help her learn," Tansy said, "not to keep her from it.

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

As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

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

Anybody who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.