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

- Richard Peck

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

- Richard Peck

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

- Richard Peck

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

- Richard Peck

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;…

- Richard Peck

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

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

- 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

[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