43 Quotes by Richard Peck

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

Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.

The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

I read because one life isn’t enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.

When I read a good book, it’s like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

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

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, and I want to be ready.

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