Maurice Sendak

Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so! ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#love

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#love

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

— Maurice Sendak

#writing-books

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more... ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#death #inspirational #life #age

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#imagination

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

— Maurice Sendak

#death #dying #tell-them-whatever-you-want #death

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

— Maurice Sendak

#children #intelligence #maurice-sendak #meaning #art

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#fantasy #fear #imagination #life #imagination

I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them. (In conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, September 27, 1993) ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#art

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #happy #i #knew #never