The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you. - Richard Peck
We write by the light of every story we have ever read. - Richard Peck
Only the nonreader fears books. - 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