Quotes by Jack Prelutsky

About Jack Prelutsky:

Jack Prelutsky is an American writer of children's poetry. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Carolynn.
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The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway....

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We Built a Castle Near the Rocks, we built it out of sand. Our fortress was an ice-cream box with turret, tall and grand. Our men were twigs, our gun were straws from which we'd sipped at lunch. We had the best of wars... till someone's foot went CRU...

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I often repeat repeat myself, I often repeat repeat. I don't don't know why know why, I simply know that I I I am am inclined to say to say a lot a lot this way this way- I often repeat repeat myself, I often repeat repeat. I often repeat repeat myse...

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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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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

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

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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.

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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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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

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

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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.

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You’re nasty and you’re loud, you’re mean enough for two, If I could be a cloud, I’d rain all day on you.

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Author Bio

  • NameJack Prelutsky
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornSeptember 8, 1940
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter