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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
Jack Prelutsky
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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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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.
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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.
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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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.
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