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Jack Prelutsky Quotes

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.

Jack Prelutsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: September 8, 1940

Topics

Writing Book Picture Too Much Bigger

When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.

Johan Cruyff

Control Back Way Ball Get Press

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

Robert Lepage

Childhood Waiting Me Chance Lonely

When I started acting classes, I was inspired. The truth is I never dreamt of being an actress as a child. But it just happened. When I started studying and getting on stage, it just came to me. I never said 'I want to be an actress.' It just happened. I started discovering myself and realized I loved it.

Ana Layevska

Truth Myself Child Me Truth Is Said

Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth, but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

Sophie Kinsella

Life Good You Want Beyond Witty

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Sophocles

Impossible Speak Noble

How has the sky been transformed by drones? How has the ocean been transformed by the fact that over 90% of the world's information travels in underwater cables?

Trevor Paglen

Sky Ocean World Information Drones

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Tom Verlaine

Quality Wonder Sound I Wonder Like

It's hard for me to get shows in the U.S. It's that simple. I don't know what that means. I think it means there's not as much support here for my music?

Julia Holter

Music Simple Support Me Think Know

I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play.

Joseph Morgan

Fun Play More Always Interest Which

I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea.

Dee Rees

Thought Write Side Anything Get

Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!

Christopher Lee

Time Me Someone Play Milk Tell

I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.

Cory Monteith

Fire Broken Ice Looks Fireplace Out