Jack Prelutsky Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Important, Sound

• 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

• 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.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Book, Writing, Differences

• 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

• 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.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Children, Writing, Voice

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

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Opportunity, Play

• Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Children, Fun, Blessed

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

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Challenges, Done

• 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

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

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Illustration, Firsts

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