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.
Jack Prelutsky
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Jack Prelutsky
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
Jack Prelutsky
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
Jack Prelutsky
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky
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.
Jack Prelutsky
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
Jack Prelutsky
I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
Jack Prelutsky
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
Jack Prelutsky
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
I'm never bored.
Jack Prelutsky
I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
Jack Prelutsky
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.
Jack Prelutsky
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Jack Prelutsky
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
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
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
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
Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
Jack Prelutsky
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Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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