I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. — 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 think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an… — 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
