Jack Prelutsky's Profile
Brief about Jack Prelutsky: By info that we know Jack Prelutsky was born at 1940-09-08. And also Jack Prelutsky is American Poet.
Some Jack Prelutsky's quotes. Goto "Jack Prelutsky's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: After, Evening, IdeaChildren seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Tags: Children, Poetry, WordsFrankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
Tags: Blessed, Fun, PoetryI would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
Tags: Good, Matter, SubjectI write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
Tags: Few, Reasons, WriteI'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Tags: Childhood, Influenced, LifeI've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Tags: Diverse, Influenced, PoetsMy 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.
Tags: Best, Remember, WifeOtherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
Tags: Enough, Poetry, SmartThen I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
Tags: Decided, Draw, PerfectWhen 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.
Tags: Children, Until, WritingWriting gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Tags: Language, Problems, WritingI 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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