A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.

- Robert Newton Peck

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

- Robert Newton Peck

I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how holy you were…

- Robert Newton Peck

A plot is two dogs and one bone.

- Robert Newton Peck

My backside and my privates. I’m stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.

- Robert Newton Peck

Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.

- Robert Newton Peck