"I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me,……" — Jack Prelutsky
"I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood."
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Jack Prelutsky
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29 Quotes by Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky has 29 quotes on this site.
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The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin,…
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She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the…
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany…
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat…
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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that…
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
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More Childhood Quotes
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
— Lance Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
— Chester Bennington
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