Maurice Sendak Quotes

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

But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!”And Max said, “N...

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not be...

so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they ta...

I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I ...

. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and an...

There must be more to life than having everything.

William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood ...

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to chil...

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They ...

I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy child...

There must be more to life than having everything!

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a ti...

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of al...

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanin...

Each month is gay,Each season nice,When eatingChicken soupWith rice

Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing but in a differen...

It is sometimes hard to be a family.

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I fee...

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I...

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

Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up fro...

[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their v...

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of in...

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming...