Maurice Sendak's Quotes

Maurice Sendak's Quotes 27

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And...

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

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children for how...

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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff I love classical...

I mean being a child was being a child was being a creature without power...

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My father could be very witty even if the humor was always on the darker...

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if...

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't...

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

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

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

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I...

I don't need faith.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a...

As a kid all I thought about was death.

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

I'm not afraid of death.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy ' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene my...

As a kid all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of...

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of...

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually something goes wrong.

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