Maurice Sendak Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'”

“I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.”

“I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.”

“In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.”

“My therapies went on forever.”

“My work is not great, but it's respectable.”

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

“You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.”

“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.”

“I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.”