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
And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours… — 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 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
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of… — 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
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