Jack Prelutsky

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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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. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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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. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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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. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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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. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Jack Prelutsky

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