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Maurice Sendak - From the Aging category:
I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Aging category:
I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Belief category:
Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain - I don't need to. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Books category:
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Books category:
Ebooks: I hate them. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Children category:
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Children category:
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Children category:
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children's letters - sometimes very hastily - but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, 'Dear Jim: I loved your card.' Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, 'Jim loved your card so much he ate it.' That to me was one of the highest compliments I've ever received. He didn't care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Fantasy category:
There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Life category:
Live your Life. Live your Life. Live your Life. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Love category:
I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. 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)
Maurice Sendak - From the Possessions category:
There must be more to life than having everything. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Purpose category:
I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I'm here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Recognition category:
-Vanity Fair, August 2012...
A woman came up to me the other day and said, 'You're the kiddie-book man!' I wanted to kill her. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Recognition category:
I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Selling category:
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)
Maurice Sendak - From the Spontaneity category:
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Technology category:
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)
Maurice Sendak - From the Truth category:
I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children, I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them. (Maurice Sendak)
Maurice Sendak - From the Writing category:
You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. (Maurice Sendak)
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