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Jack Prelutsky

"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 read them all."

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Donna Grant

"Big Brother is watching you."

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Donna Grant

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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Donna Grant

"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

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Donna Grant

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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Donna Grant

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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Donna Grant

"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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Donna Grant

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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Donna Grant

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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Donna Grant

"Children are angels."

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Donna Grant

"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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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."

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Jack Prelutsky
"Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career."

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Jack Prelutsky
"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 read them all."

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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."

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Jack Prelutsky
"I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing."

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

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

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Jack Prelutsky
"I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read."

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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."

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Jack Prelutsky
"We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine."

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