When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair. Richard Peck More Quotes by Richard Peck More Quotes From Richard Peck The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you. Richard Peck light bridges writing I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody. Richard Peck pages enough book Only the nonreader fears books. Richard Peck book We write by the light of every story we have ever read. Richard Peck light stories writing We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about. Richard Peck knows wonder writing Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit. Richard Peck morning book children Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer. Richard Peck reader 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 just that simple. Richard Peck simple hands Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself. Richard Peck oil grandma world ...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 run out of cheeks. Richard Peck four trouble running 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 finding-yourself pages ifs Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. Richard Peck communication mother writing 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 neck. Richard Peck necks cutting grandma Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school. Richard Peck finishing-school finishing school I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. Richard Peck fixing wings bird I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. Richard Peck humorous gone sound But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move. Richard Peck together two moving Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep. Richard Peck funny-things secret fame I read.. because one life is not enough Richard Peck enough life-is [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 ever-after new-beginnings adults
