I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. — 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
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. — 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
Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I am not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They… — 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
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
“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern, — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest. — 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 have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart,… — 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 believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we… — 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
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
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
