Jack Prelutsky Quotes
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Pity is a useless emotion
— Jackson Pearce
Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
— Jack Prelutsky
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
— Jack Prelutsky
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
— Jack Prelutsky
She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.
— Jack Prelutsky
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
— 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 suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
— Rod Stewart
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.
— Jack Prelutsky
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
— Jack Prelutsky
Extreme programming is an emotional experience.
— Kent Beck
Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.
— Francis Quarles
There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.
— Gillian Anderson
If you don't believe in dragons, It is curiously true
That the dragons you disparage
Choose to not believe in you. — Jack Prelutsky
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
— Jack Prelutsky
His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.
— Jack Prelutsky
When you break rules, break 'em good and hard
— Terry Pratchett
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
— Jack Prelutsky
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
— Leonard Peltier
A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.
— Jack Prelutsky
Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you ...
— Daniel Wolpert
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
You're nasty and you're loud,you're mean enough for two,
If I could be a cloud,
I'd rain all day on you. — Jack Prelutsky
I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
— Jack Prelutsky
I don't know. I'm really really really nervous.
— Nadine Coyle
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
— Jack Prelutsky
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
I'm never bored.
— Jack Prelutsky
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
— Jack Prelutsky
Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your song.
— Peggy Toney Horton
The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.
— Jack Prelutsky
Never judge the length of a book by it's spine!
— Stephanie Bates
I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
— Jack Prelutsky
