- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Edgar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
- Life Is A
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Once
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
- Illustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020