"Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and……" — Maurice Sendak
"Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern,"
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146 Quotes by Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak has 146 quotes on this site.
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As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I…
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I would infinitely prefer a daughter.
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I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of…
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But…
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There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm…
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It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to…
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not…
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I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing,…
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I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the…
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I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'
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I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.
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As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of…
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
— Lance Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
— Chester Bennington
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