Jack Prelutsky Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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