Jack Prelutsky Quotes

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• A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Poet

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

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  Childhood, My Own

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• The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.

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  Writing, Important, Sound

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• If you don't believe in dragons,
  It is curiously true
  That the dragons you disparage
  Choose to not believe in you.

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  Believe, Dragons, Ifs

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• We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

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  Needs, Way, Poetry Is

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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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  Children, Fun, Blessed

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

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  Perfect, Imagination, Draws

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

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  Artist, Would Be, Knows

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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.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Reading, Writing, Lines

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• It's Halloween! It's Halloween!
  The moon is full and bright
  And we shall see what can't be seen
  On any other night.
  Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls,
  Grinning goblins fighting duels
  Werewolves rising from their tombs,
  Witches on their magic brooms
  In masks and gown we haunt the street
  And knock on doors for trick or treat
  Tonight we are the king and queen,
  For oh tonight it's Halloween!

  Jack Prelutsky

  Kings, Queens, Halloween

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• The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Black And White, Littles

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• She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

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  Queens, Halloween, Night

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

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  Children, Rhyming, Combination

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

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  Looks, Language

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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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  Children, Writing, Voice

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• I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

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  Eight

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• There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

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  Book, Writing, Differences

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• In masks and gown we haunt the street
  And knock on doors for trick or treat
  Tonight we are the king and queen,
  For oh tonight it's Halloween!

  Jack Prelutsky

  Kings, Queens, Halloween

  Jack Prelutsky (1977). “It's Halloween”, Scholastic Paperbacks

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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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  Writing, Opportunity, Play

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• 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.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Fun, Writing, Guitar

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• 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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  Ideas, Two, Drawing

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• I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

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  Writing, Challenges, Done

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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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  Smart, Adults, Reading Books

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• 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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  Book, Teaching, Reading

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

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  Writing, Illustration, Firsts

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