Charlie Fletcher
Also publishes under C.A. Fletcher
Charlie Fletcher is the author of Stoneheart, shortlisted for the Branford Boase award and longlisted for the Guardian children’s fiction award, the sequels Ironhand and Silvertongue, and the stand-alone YA novel Far Rockaway.
His first adult novel The Oversight will be published in May 2014 in the US and UK.
Dragon Shield, the start of a new trilogy set in the Stoneheart world of London will be published in mid 2014.
He’s also a screenwriter for film and television . He lives in Edinburgh with one wife, two children, and a terrier called Archie.
He's twitterable at @CharlieFletch_r
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“Rain spat at him, and he looked up, thinking that alone was the way to be, because alone meant you were in charge of what could get to you and what you could keep out.”
Charlie Fletcher
“Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.”
Charlie Fletcher
“...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.”
Charlie Fletcher
“You can't change the past. Even if it hasn't happened yet.”
Charlie Fletcher
“Everybody wants to fly. At some stage in their lives, everyone looks up in the sky and sees the seemingly effortlessness of a bird in the gulf of air overhead and thinks: I wish, just one time, that could be me.”
Charlie Fletcher
“People pay money to go in there and that row thrown at them? Could stick your head in a bucket and whack it with a stick for free...”
Charlie Fletcher
“We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.”
Charlie Fletcher
“You know what you are, young 'un? You're the grand bloody panjandrum of the painfully bleeding obvious.”
Charlie Fletcher
“The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.”
Charlie Fletcher
“There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.”
Charlie Fletcher