Jack Prelutsky Quotes

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.

I Would Go To Sketch Groups And Draw. I Really Enjoyed The Subject Matter, But I Wasn't Good At It.

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.

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.

I Write The Poems First, With Only A Few Exceptions For Odd Reasons, Where I'm Given The Illustration First.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Otherwise I Don't Read Much Adult Poetry At All, Because I'm Not Smart Enough And Mostly I Don't Get It.

I Accept Challenges, I Have Always Done That In Writing.