Catherine Fisher
Catherine Fisher
Catherine Fisheris a Welsh writer, broadcaster and adjudicator who lives in Newport. Her former jobs include working as a primary school teacher and archaeologist. She also taught Writing for Children at the University of Glamorgan...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionWriter
girl wise wall
I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.
mean care ifs
If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.
art nice mean
The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice.
beautiful night men
He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan.
men like-you old-man
Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.
jobs archaeology enjoyed
I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.
quicker type using
I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.