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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
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
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
Childhood is a tricky business. Usually something goes wrong.
— 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
Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
— Maurice Sendak
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
— 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'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
