Richard Peck Says....

I went with Emily today to hear one of our favorite Author's, Richard Peck, talk today. We also got him to sign copies of two of his books, which are two of our favorite books.

He was a very passionate and articulate speaker, talking about the need to read.

Here are some tidbits of what he had to say:

"The only Front Porch left is a book" he said, talking about how he used to sit on a front porch and listen to the stories of adults.

"If I only wrote what I knew, I would have written an unpublished Haiku", talking about how a good author doesn't write from their own experiences, but the experiences of others.

"You learn the most from the experiences you would have avoided if you had the choice."

"Tho puberty is the death of childhood, it is not the birth of reason"

"When I began teaching, parents feared a phone call from the school, now the school fears a phone call from the parents."

"A book must be about the reader, not the writer."

"Nobody but a reader ever became a writer."

Good stuff from a great storyteller. Check out his books. They are well worth the read.