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Jack Prelutsky

"Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood."

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"Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood."

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"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

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"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

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"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

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"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

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"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."

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"With astonishing wonder, I have seen the magic of life, the power of thoughts, and the beauty of imagination."

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"Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?"

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"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."

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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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"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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"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."
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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."
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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'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood."
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"I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read."
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