Richard Peck Quotes

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

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

Richard Peck

Tags: fiction, ghosts, girls, handwritten, lasting, pen, prologue, second sight, truth, where

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.

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.

Richard Peck

Tags: fear, haters, jerks, labels, projecting

About Author

Richard Peck may refer to:

Richard Peck (RAF officer) (1893–1952), Air Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Richard Peck (writer) (1934–2018), American novelist
Richard Peck (British Army officer) (born 1937), English cricketer and army officer
Richard Peck (lawyer) (born 1948), Canadian lawyer

We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him.

We'd gotten him wrong. He wasn't a dunce. He was an artist. According to these pages, he'd seen us all a good deal clearer than we'd ever seen him.

Richard Peck

Yes, I think you'll find that all the best teachers are old bats.

Yes, I think you'll find that all the best teachers are old bats.

Richard Peck

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.

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

Besdies, to turn me ladylike might have rendered me useless and possibly ornamental.

Besdies, to turn me ladylike might have rendered me useless and possibly ornamental.

Richard Peck

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

Richard Peck

Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

Fiction isn't what 'was'. It's 'what if'?

Richard Peck

But later when I was a teacher, an English teacher naturally, my students preferred fiction to reality. They were in junior high, and so they preferred ANYTHING to reality.

But later when I was a teacher, an English teacher naturally, my students preferred fiction to reality. They were in junior high, and so they preferred ANYTHING to reality.

Richard Peck

Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.

Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.

Richard Peck

Hayseeds we might be, but we meant to be informed hayseeds.

Hayseeds we might be, but we meant to be informed hayseeds.

Richard Peck

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

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

Richard Peck

Then a lady flounced up and perched on the seat opposite. She had a full bird on the wing sewn to the crown of her hat, and she was painted up like a circus pony, so we took her to be from Chicago.

Then a lady flounced up and perched on the seat opposite. She had a full bird on the wing sewn to the crown of her hat, and she was painted up like a circus pony, so we took her to be from Chicago.

Richard Peck

The sobs came then, faster than she could swallow. A teacher dares not cry, not a real teacher.

The sobs came then, faster than she could swallow. A teacher dares not cry, not a real teacher.

Richard Peck

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 build the story become mine, to build my life;I read not for happy endings but for new be...

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 build the story become mine, to build my life;I read not for happy endings but for new be...

Richard Peck

A Seth Thomas steeple clock stood on a high shelf. When it struck ten, Grandma jerked awake. She looked around the room astonished. It was her belief that she never slept, not even in bed.

A Seth Thomas steeple clock stood on a high shelf. When it struck ten, Grandma jerked awake. She looked around the room astonished. It was her belief that she never slept, not even in bed.

Richard Peck

The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying.'Then I could read her thoughts and I knew what this day meant. Mrs. Abernathy's son could have been my dad.

The trenches are all filled in, but the boys are still dying.'Then I could read her thoughts and I knew what this day meant. Mrs. Abernathy's son could have been my dad.

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.

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

Tags: reading

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

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

Richard Peck

Tags: books, corruption, ideas

Read to your childrenTwenty 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 armAnd reach for the l...

Read to your childrenTwenty 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 armAnd reach for the l...

Richard Peck