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. Isobelle Carmody Read Quote
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. Isobelle Carmody Read Quote
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. Isobelle Carmody Read Quote
The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life. Isobelle Carmody Read Quote
Isn’t that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world? Isobelle Carmody Read Quote
I don’t believe in fairies floating around, and I don’t believe in telepathy, but there are things I want to say that just simple real-life stories don’t let me say. Isobelle Carmody Read Quote
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. Isobelle Carmody Read Quote
