Maurice Sendak Quotes
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I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
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You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.
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I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.
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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.
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In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
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Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
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It's no fun being lonely.
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My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
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I became a set designer for opera.
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I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
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As a kid, all I thought about was death.
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My therapies went on forever.
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I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.
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I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
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I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.
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There must be more to life than having everything.
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Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
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I hate people.
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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.
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My being gay was something of not great interest to me.
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.