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
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. — 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
I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.' — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if… — 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
I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it.… — 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
How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls… — 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
