What did Richard Peck mean by: I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. - Richard Peck Author · USA Copy
+ Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep. Feraz Zeid, October 23, 2023December 26, 2023, Richard Peck, Fame, Funny Things, Secret, 0 - Richard Peck Author · USA
+ I read because one life isn’t enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Peck, Book, Enough, Pages, 0 - Richard Peck Author · USA
+ Only the nonreader fears books. Feraz Zeid, June 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Richard Peck, Book, 0 - Richard Peck Author · USA
+ We write by the light of every story we have ever read. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Richard Peck, Light, Stories, Writing, 0 - Richard Peck Author · USA
+ The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Peck, Grew Up, Mary, 0 - Richard Peck Author · USA
+ The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Peck, Bridges, Light, Writing, 0 - Richard Peck Author · USA
+ Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer. Feraz Zeid, October 7, 2023December 26, 2023, Richard Peck, 0 - Richard Peck Author · USA
+ If you’re going to read minds, start with a simple one. Feraz Zeid, October 19, 2023December 26, 2023, Richard Peck, Mind, Simple, 0 - Richard Peck Author · USA
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God’s help I catch some. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird! - Jenny Lind Singer · Sweden
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together. - William Jennings Bryan Lawyer and politician · USA
Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours - William Langewiesche Journalist
Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly. - William P. Young Author · Canada
Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly. - William P. Young Author · Canada