99+ Maurice Sendak Quotes on Where the Wild Things Are, Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life and Where the Wild Things Are - Quotes.pub

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Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him – and it was still hot.

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

There’s something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

Country Quotes

The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

I really don’t like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It’s too tumultuous. It’s too crazy.

We’re supposed to be civilized. We’re supposed to go to work every day. We’re supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

I do not remember any proper children’s books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that’s OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

And the wild things... gnashed their terrible teeth...

I’ll eat you up!

You don’t want to do something that’s all terrifying.

If you’re making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up.

You can’t get rid of evil. We can’t, and I feel that so intensely.

It is sometimes hard to be a family.

I think people should be given a test much like driver’s tests as to whether they’re capable of being parents!

I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

I don’t believe in things literally for children. That’s a reduction.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It’s getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I’ve gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

If there’s anything I’m proud of in my work – it’s not that I draw better; there’s so many better graphic artists than me – or that I write better, no. It’s – and I’m not saying I know the truth, because what the hell is that? But what I got from Ruth and Dave, a kind of fierce honesty, to not let the kid down, to not let the kid get punished, to not suffer the child to be dealt with in a boring, simpering, crushing-of-the-spirit kind of way.

I’m gay. I just didn’t think it was anybody’s business.

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

We’re animals. We’re violent.

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters – sometimes very hastily – but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I’m doing at the moment.

I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?

I don’t know how to write a children’s book.

Make it dangerous or it’s not worth doing.

Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.

I’m not jaded. I never have been jaded. I’ve always been surprised at my success. I’ve always enjoyed it.

I’m scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can’t fall asleep.

You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson – she’s probably the top – Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

I never set out to write books for children. I don’t have a feeling that I’m gonna save children or my life is devoted.

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

Stories Quotes

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it.

I remember how much – when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of ‘Peter Pan.’ I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with – loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

I would infinitely prefer a daughter.

I became a set designer for opera.

I am in love with the world.

I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

Kids lead a very private life.

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