Jack Prelutsky Quotes

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

I think the best thing that I collect is memories. I love traveling; I love remembering stuff, my family, my daughter, my wife. I just love collecting memories of my trips, my experiences. And I think that's it. I'm not very glued to material stuff.

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

I'm just a product of my environment, and it comes out in the music.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

How I was raised is what I am today.

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard, the people that I knew - were the ones from my childhood.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

I had an extraordinary childhood.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

I grew up in the suburbs, which I don't think shaped me very much.

I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life.

I was blessed to have my son, ZZ, doing it; he managed to pull nothing but the truth out of me. Put all that aside, and you think how strange it is to watch a movie about some small, but important, part of your life.

I want to share the experiences I've had.

Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my memories of growing up.

Our own lives always influence the way we write.

I have a lot of photos of my grandparents - they're my heroes, even though they've passed away. They were always happy, positive, loving to everyone they met, and a huge inspiration to me and the reason I do what I do.

Everybody looks back on what they studied and what they grew up with.

I lived with my mom my whole life; her work ethic was ridiculous, and it hasn't changed.

When I look back to my childhood, many concrete scenes come to my mind, good ones and bad ones.

What I went through in personal life had a big impression on my professional choices.

I think everything that happens to you becomes a part of what you end up doing and being and standing for.