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Richard Peck's
Notable Quotes |
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"What started me on a career as a writer? A mother who read to me before I could read, and teachers who never put a grade on a rough draft." |
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"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 beginnings; I'm just beginning myself, and I wouldn't mind a map;
I read because I have friends who don't, and young though they are, they're beginning to run out of material;
I read because every journey begins at the library, and it's time for me to start packing;
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."
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"There are timely problems, even fashionable ones--of drugs and drink and divorce. But I learned of larger, timeless problems from my students that I wouldn't have evaluated in my own life. That being young in an old world is never easy. That the more freedom the young are given, the less they have. That to be overpraised is to be robbed of challenge. That your best friend and your worst enemy tend to be the same person."
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"I believe I have one theme in all of my books and I want to get it across to all my readers every time and that is this: You will never begin to grow up until you declare your independence from your peers." |
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"I want to write novels that ask honest questions about serious issues. A novel is never an answer; it's always a question." |
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"I caught my first glimpses of the world and the future in books. Here in some other century I hope young readers still do." |
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Sources
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Carol Otis Hurst�s Consultants. 2004. Featured author: Richard Peck. Available from http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/rpeck.html. Accessed 24 September 2004.
H. W. Wilson. 2004. Educational Paperback Association�s Top 100 Authors: Richard Peck. Available from http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=68. Accessed 24 September 2004.
TallMania! 2004. Newbery-winning author Richard Peck. Available from http://www.tallmania.com/peck.html. Accessed 24 September 2004. |
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This site developed for an assignment in Advanced Children's Literature
School of Library and Information Studies
TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY |
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