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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
In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
— Burt Prelutsky
It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.
— Burt Prelutsky
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
— Jack Prelutsky
Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.
— Burt Prelutsky
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
— 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
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
— Jack Prelutsky
If you don't believe in dragons, It is curiously true
That the dragons you disparage
Choose to not believe in you. — Jack Prelutsky
The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn't work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they're convinced it does.
— Burt Prelutsky
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
— Jack Prelutsky
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
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
We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.
— Burt 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
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
— Jack Prelutsky
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
— Jack Prelutsky
I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
— Jack Prelutsky
The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.
— 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
I'm never bored.
— Jack Prelutsky
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
— 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
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
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
Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.
— Burt Prelutsky
A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.
— Jack Prelutsky