Quotes by : Maurice Sendak

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel....

There must be more to life than having everything!

William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was....

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

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings....

Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from....

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest....

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety....

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I....