"My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing.……" — John Marsden
"My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own."
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John Marsden
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55 Quotes by John Marsden
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