Maurice Sendak Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been.”

“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.”

“I would infinitely prefer a daughter.”

“Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.”

“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.”

“I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.”

“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.”

“I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'”

“'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.”

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