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Jack Prelutsky Quotes

American - Poet | September 8, 1940 -

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

Smart Poetry Enough Adult Get Read

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

Challenges Writing Done Accept

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Children Words Poetry Rhythm Seem

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.

Writing Book Picture Too Much Bigger

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.

Poetry Reading I Can Trouble Young

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

Good Go Sketch Matter Would Enjoyed

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

Opportunity Childhood Imagination Me

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.

Children Writing Voice Want My Own

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

Poetry Need Mine Ourselves Express

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

Imagination Perfect My Own Everything

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.

Best Wife Brother Me Feet Remember

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.

Myself Reading Facts Been Trivia

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