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Jack Prelutsky [1940-0] American

Rank: 108
Poet, Writer

Jack Prelutsky is an American writer of children's poetry. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Carolynn.

Poetry, Imagination

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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.		101
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.	Imagination	102
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.		103
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.	Poetry	104
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.		105
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.	Poetry	106
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.		107
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.		108
Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.	Imagination	109
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.	Poetry	110
My 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.		111
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.		112
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.		113
I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.		114
I'm never bored.		115
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.	Poetry	116
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.		117
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.	Poetry	118
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.	Poetry	119
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.		120
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.		121
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.		122
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.		123
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.		124

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