Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
More Quotes from Jack Prelutsky:
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.Jack Prelutsky
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.
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.
Jack Prelutsky
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
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.
Jack Prelutsky
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky
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