Jack Prelutsky Quotes
Jack Prelutsky Quotes
- 1
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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- 2
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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- 3
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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- 4
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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- 5
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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- 6
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
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- 7
I'm incredibly excited about Awful Ogre. The ogre is my alter ego. It's a day in the life of an ogre, from when he gets up until he goes to bed.
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- 8
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
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- 9
I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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- 10
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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- 11
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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- 12
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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- 13
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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- 14
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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- 15
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.
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- 16
Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
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- 17
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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- 18
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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- 19
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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