"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."

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"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."

Family

"I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what."

Art

"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."

Creativity

"I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first."

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

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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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"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."

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"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."

Reading

"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."

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"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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