All Jack Prelutsky Quotes
- The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning. Important
- Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. Blessed
- Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. Children
- His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones. Black
- She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch. Black
- 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… Accompany
- I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing. Accept
- I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what. Always Knew
- I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. English
- I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun… Accompany
- 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… Fun
- I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it. Draw
- I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. Exception
- I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. Childhood
- 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… Anyone
- I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. Allan
- 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… Best
- Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it. Adult
- 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… Been
- We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. All
- 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… 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… Finished
- 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… All
- Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. Childhood
- I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once. Eight