Isobelle Carmody
Isobelle Carmody
Isobelle Jane Carmodyis an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 June 1958
CountryAustralia
block heart eye
The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a speck in their eye, the person would only see the ugly side of things from then on, but if a piece got in their blood and it reached their heart, it would freeze into a solid block of ice and they couldn't feel anything anymore
stars fall heart
You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.
oral poetic time
First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.
life spent
I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.
almost forgotten links mystical power
I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.
arise best ultimate
The best books arise from some ultimate question in the author.
audience book
The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.
gritty life people
The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.
battered books gratifying love until
What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.
flattered younger
I do see, in some younger writers, elements and things that I have used - and I am very touched and flattered because I am part of a tapestry that is being absorbed by authors.
accepted category full listed older readers sent wrote year
I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.
animate answer deepest figure order people work writers
If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.
bits bread built child good home mother notion sends stones talk time
Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again.
add answer best human offer offering resonate truth understanding
The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition.