Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
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… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. — 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… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I want to be free again. I want to be free like when I was a kid, working with my brother and… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave 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… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics.… — 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
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
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
My sister had her own room. She also had innumerable boyfriends. I had a yo-yo collection that was beyond belief, and the… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
If there's any advice I have to give, I would say it's that. If you're looking for a way to get closer… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into… — 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
