Jack Prelutsky quotes

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. (Jack Prelutsky)
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. View quote
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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. View quote
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I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor. View quote
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. View quote
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A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are. View quote
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. View quote
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. View quote
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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect. View quote
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing. View quote
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it. (Jack Prelutsky)
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. View quote
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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter. View quote
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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. View quote
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. View quote
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. View quote
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. View quote
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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do. View quote
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once. View quote
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what. View quote
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. (Jack Prelutsky)
My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids. View quote
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it. View quote
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Jack Prelutsky

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: September 8, 1940
Quotes count: 23