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
Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day;… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems… — 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
