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.
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies. - John Marsden
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.
- John Marsden
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. - John Marsden
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I do… - John Marsden
I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I do…
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third. - John Marsden
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.
Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever. - John Marsden
Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.
My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spi… - John Marsden
My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spi…
Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming. - John Marsden
Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.
Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you … - John Marsden
Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you …
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… - 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…
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