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Quotes By Jack Prelutsky

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.

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MusicFun Guitar

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.

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Found Until Voice

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

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Accept Challenges

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I’m given the illustration first.

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Few Given Reasons

Otherwise I don’t read much adult poetry at all, because I’m not smart enough and mostly I don’t get it.

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PoetryAdult Smart

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.

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BestRemember Wife

I’m usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

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Eight

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.

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Book Books Difference

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.

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Books Facts Reading

I’m working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone’s interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard’s.

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LifeAnyone Interested

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

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Came Decided Perfect

I’ve been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

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Diverse Influenced Poets

I look for poetry in English because it’s the only language I read.

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PoetryEnglish Language

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

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PoetryOurselves Ways

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

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PoetryCareer Fun
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