I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
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
[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my… — 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
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