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Jack Prelutsky Quotes

American - Poet | September 8, 1940 -

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

Been Poets Influenced Diverse Lewis

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.

Life Life Is A Now Little Take May

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

Things Working Eight Once

I'm never bored.

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

Life Childhood Me My Own Own Around

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

Write First Where Only Odd Reasons

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

Poetry Language Look Because English

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.

Music Fun Me Writing Guitar Will

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.

Friend Fun Me Birds Down Animals

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

Artist Know Always Would Knew Some

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

Children Myself Fun Poetry Blessed

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.

Me Evening Pen Two Where Dozen

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