Richard Peck

"Only the nonreader fears books."

Richard Peck

"[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."

Richard Peck

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

Richard Peck

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

Richard Peck

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

Richard Peck

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

Richard Peck