I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!” And Max said,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.' — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety;… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
We’ve educated children to think that spontaneity is inappropriate. Children are willing to expose themselves to experiences. We aren’t. Grownups always say… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“At the end of the forest the guardian angel pointed to the village and said: ‘There you will find your mother. She… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
It was inconceivable to me as a child that I would be an adult. I mean, one assumed that it would happen,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety;… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I never thought of Bumble-Ardy in that way. But I still have that same deep feeling for children who are in dire trouble. I… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“May I ask what you have in your black leather bag with gold buckles?" "Everything." They were climbing a narrow staircase. Rhoda stopped to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
