Maurice Sendak Quotes & Sayings

“There's so much more to a book than just the reading.”

“It's no fun being lonely.”

“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.”

“Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.”

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

“I'm not obsessed with angels but I do adore angels.”

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

“I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.”

“There must be more to life than having everything.”

“I'm totally crazy, I know that.”