Maurice Sendak Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak Famous Quotes & Sayings
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F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won't give a s**t.
People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.
I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child and you as an adult.
Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.
Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.
You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.
My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.
I remember my own childhood vividly ... I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.
Inside all of us is HOPE. Inside all of us is FEAR. Inside all of us is ADVENTURE. Inside all of us is A WILD THING.
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.