For a moment they stood looking at each other in the firelight, while the old harper still fingered the shining strings and the other man looked on with a gleam of amusement lurking in his watery blue eyes. But Aquila was not looking at him. He was looking only at the dark young man, seeing that he was darker even than he had thought at first, and slightly built in a way that went with the darkness, as though maybe the old blood, the blood of the People of the Hills, ran strong in him. But his eyes, under brows as straight as a raven’s flight-pinions, were not the eyes of the little Dark People, which were black and unstable and full of dreams, but a pale clear grey, lit with gold, that gave the effect of flame behind them.
from The Lantern Bearers, quoted at Goodreads
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Rosemary Sutcliff wrote fairytales | Einstein said fairy-tales essential for intelligence
Rosemary Sutcliff created evocative historical novels and fairy-tales from her powerful imagination. She would have agreed with scientist Albert Einstein:
If you want your children to be intelligent read them fairy-tales. If you want them to be more intelligent read them more fairy tales.Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff, Karen Cushman want life in the bones of history via books | Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
Rosemary Sutcliff and Karen Cushman are ‘moved to write historical fiction’ for the same reason
I write historical fiction because those are the stories that take me over. Rosemary Sutcliff, writer of gorgeous historical novels for young people, said, ‘Historians and teachers, you and your kind can produce the bare bones; I and my kind breathe life into them.’ That’s what I’m interested in — the life in those bones.
Rosemary Sutcliff | The Eagle of the Ninth | book, radio play, film, movie
Rosemary Sutcliff’s book The Eagle of the Ninth is the basis for The Eagle film (2011) which will be released on February 11th in the USA and March 25th, 2011, in the UK. For more and the film posters.
Rosemary Sutcliff The Eagle of the Ninth author on being a person and writer with disabilities
Rosemary Sutcliff, a most able writer of children’s books and historical fiction (‘co-writer’ of film The Eagle (of the Ninth)), spoke of the ‘surprising loss of privacy’ when she wrote about living with her disability for the ‘Emotions in Focus’ exhibition at The Roundhouse (London) which celebrated the 1981 International Year of Disabled People.
Career-wise, I’m one of the lucky ones. My job, as a writer of books, is one of the few in which physical disability presents hardly any problems. I would claim that it presents no problems at all but my kind of book needs research, and research is more difficult for a disabled person. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 