"Writing is not a job or activity. Nor……" — John Marsden
"Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different from each other."
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John Marsden
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55 Quotes by John Marsden
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They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way…
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People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they…
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the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.
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We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.
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Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees,…
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Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.
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When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can…
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Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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