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Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment. — Maurice Sendak

There's so much more to a book than just the reading. — Maurice Sendak

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. — Maurice Sendak

I'm not a religious person. — Maurice Sendak

I'm totally crazy, I know that. — Maurice Sendak

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books, — Maurice Sendak

Kids lead a very private life. — Maurice Sendak

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead. — Maurice Sendak

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable. — Maurice Sendak

I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy. — Maurice Sendak

Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them. — Maurice Sendak

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future ... they may well be ... I will be dead. — Maurice Sendak

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. — Maurice Sendak

I don't know how to write a children's book. — Maurice Sendak

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. — Maurice Sendak

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive. — Maurice Sendak

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning. — Maurice Sendak

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. — Maurice Sendak

The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been. — Maurice Sendak

We all want to be renewed, don't we? — Maurice Sendak

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.' — Maurice Sendak

There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality — Maurice Sendak

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. — Maurice Sendak

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. — Maurice Sendak

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. — Maurice Sendak

There's so much more to book than just reading — Maurice Sendak

I was miserable as a kid. — Maurice Sendak

Kids are so shrewd. — Maurice Sendak

My being gay was something of not great interest to me. — Maurice Sendak

There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me. — Maurice Sendak

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. — Maurice Sendak

My therapies went on forever. — Maurice Sendak

I became a set designer for opera. — Maurice Sendak

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? — Maurice Sendak

I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. — Maurice Sendak

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid. — Maurice Sendak

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest. — Maurice Sendak

Oh, please don't go - we'll eat you up - we love you so! — Maurice Sendak

I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay? — Maurice Sendak

Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is. — Maurice Sendak

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. — Maurice Sendak

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. — Maurice Sendak

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business. — Maurice Sendak

You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. — Maurice Sendak

I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. — Maurice Sendak

It's no fun being lonely. — Maurice Sendak

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die. — Maurice Sendak

Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice. — Maurice Sendak

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. — Maurice Sendak

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. — Maurice Sendak

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually something goes wrong. — Maurice Sendak

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern, — Maurice Sendak

I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all. — Maurice Sendak

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things. — Maurice Sendak

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. — Maurice Sendak

There must be more to life than having everything! — Maurice Sendak

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it — Maurice Sendak

My parents were very indiscrete. — Maurice Sendak

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown ... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously. — Maurice Sendak

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing. — Maurice Sendak

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence. — Maurice Sendak

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life. — Maurice Sendak

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. — Maurice Sendak

I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did. — Maurice Sendak

As a kid, all I thought about was death. — Maurice Sendak

When you hide another story in a story, that's the story I am telling the children. — Maurice Sendak

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment. — Maurice Sendak

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start! — Maurice Sendak

We're animals. We're violent. — Maurice Sendak

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever. — Maurice Sendak

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. — Maurice Sendak

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 — Maurice Sendak

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. — Maurice Sendak

My father belonged to a Jewish social club. — Maurice Sendak

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. — Maurice Sendak

And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it. — Maurice Sendak

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. — Maurice Sendak

I'm not afraid of death. — Maurice Sendak

I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction. — Maurice Sendak

Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift. — Maurice Sendak

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. — Maurice Sendak

If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up. — Maurice Sendak

I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it. — Maurice Sendak

Art has always been my salvation. — Maurice Sendak

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. — Maurice Sendak

Never fear. When this rose blooms, you will be with me again. — Maurice Sendak

I don't need faith. — Maurice Sendak

We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do. — Maurice Sendak

I'll eat you up I love you so. — Maurice Sendak

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist. — Maurice Sendak

I'm a lucky buck. — Maurice Sendak

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws. — Maurice Sendak

I'm gay. I just didn't think it was anybody's business. — Maurice Sendak

I don't want to lose hope. — Maurice Sendak

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. — Maurice Sendak

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. — Maurice Sendak

I'm an illustrator. I have to accept my role. — Maurice Sendak

And the walls became the world all around. — Maurice Sendak

Let the wild rumpus start! — Maurice Sendak

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. — Maurice Sendak