Books Quote by Jack Prelutsky

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

— Robert Bly

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun…

— Ellen Potter

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the minor ones...…

— Anne Sexton

Growing up as a kid, I took creative writing classes, and I was always into poetry.

— Ivan Moody

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

— Barry Eisler

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

— J. K. Rowling

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they…

— Mariah Carey