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Only the nonreader fears books.
Richard Peck / Novelist
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I read.. because one life is not enough
Richard Peck / Novelist
Enough
Life Is
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Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
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Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Finishing
Finishing School
School
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We write by the light of every story we have ever read.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Light
Stories
Writing
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If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Ifs
Mind
Simple
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We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Knows
Wonder
Writing
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But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Moving
Together
Two
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Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Fame
Funny Things
Secret
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The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Bridges
Light
Writing
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I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.
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Gone
Humorous
Sound
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Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Cities
Thinking
Towns
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I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Book
Enough
Pages
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When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Book
Leaving
World
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I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.
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Bird
Fixing
Wings
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The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Grew Up
Mary
Years
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With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Drama
Shannon
World
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Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Struggle
Voice
Young
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Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Grandma
Oil
World
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Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Communication
Mother
Writing
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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 / Novelist
Finding Yourself
Ifs
Pages
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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 / Novelist
Cutting
Grandma
Necks
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[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 / Novelist
Adults
Ever After
New Beginnings
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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 / Novelist
Hands
Simple
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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
Richard Peck / Novelist
These Days
Towns
Want
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...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.
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Running
Four
Trouble
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That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.
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Decision
Eye
Heart
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September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.
Richard Peck / Novelist
Home
Children
Waiting
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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 / Novelist
Morning
Book
Children
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