Jack Prelutsky Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I'm never bored.”

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

“I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.”

“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.”

“Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”