#he

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

— Maurice Sendak

#father #mother #psychotic #scariest #stories

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. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#beyond #certainly #children #comprehension #emotional

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#convinced #despair #down #everything #hope

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#capable #driver #given #i #i think

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#books #childhood #children #exposed #i

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#again #believe #brother #expect #fully

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#big #brave #carry #emily #everywhere

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. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#alone #brother #brother and sister #day #dead

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#i #short #silly #simple #something

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. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#better #books #children #critics #i