Richard Due > Quotes

“Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.
Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“There is a value to books—unhackable, paper books—that measures far beyond mere ink and paper.”
― Richard Due

“I was asked the age old question today: why are you an author? I suppose there are lots of answers to this question that would suffice, but for me there is really only one answer that will do: the blank paper taunts me, and I am weak.”
― Richard Due

“I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face.”
― Richard Due

“If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. —Richard Due”
― Richard Due

“But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Editing is like walking across a room strewn with rose petals and thorns. When you can walk across mostly unbloodied, you're finished.”
― Richard Due

“Well, as you grow older, you'll discover a curious thing about the truth - it plays by its own rules. It cares not one whit about your or anyone else's beliefs. The truth just is. There is no stopping or changing it. Further, I would counsel you to prepare yourselves, as the truth can be quite far removed from one's expectations”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“I must warn you, my story isn’t a pretty one: abductions, time-traveling dragons, the Order of the Black Fez, highly verbal cats, a secret invisible city, condescending robots (condescending means they talk to you like you’re an Idiot; wait, is it condescending of me to explain what condescending means?), and that’s just for starters. —Willa Snap”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

“You’d be surprised what an eleven-year-old can get away with.” —Tuppence”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

“Do not stare directly into his eyes!” she warned, in an accent I couldn’t place.
“Why not?” I said, but she was already too late. I was staring directly into his eyes too.
“Because they are dreamy, and endless, and magical. And then when you learn what a terrible boy he is, your heart will turn into a black husk of doom.”
I blinked off the spell of the boy’s eyes.
“Wait, what?” —Nimet Simit and Willa Snap, conversing on the power of Ravenlock Sward's eyes.”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

“Never mess with the Fez.” —Heather Peaceout, Black Fez, Second Order”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

“Knowledge is what turns magic from gold into lead. —an I.O.I. axiom”
― Richard Due

“Never bluff with something more powerful than you, Lily. Things more powerful than yourself can feel when your bluff is nothing more than a hollow threat, and they will make it your undoing”
― Richard Due, The Dragondain

“History is always older.
—Black Fez axiom”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy

“Just a cat! Just a cat! I am the stealer of breaths, the walker of shadows, the keeper of nine lives.” —the Magnificent Lady Grayson of the Silky White Underbelly, or Just Grayson for Short”
― Richard Due, Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy