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Jack Prelutsky

"I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood."

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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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Jack Prelutsky
"I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first."
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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
"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
"I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood."
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Jack Prelutsky
"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."
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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."
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Jack Prelutsky
"We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine."
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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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"I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read."

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