Maurice Sendak Quotes

On this page you can find the TOP of Maurice Sendak's best quotes! We hope you will find some sayings from Illustrator Maurice Sendak's in our collection, which will inspire you to new achievements! There are currently 188 quotes on this page collected since June 10, 1928! Share our collection of quotes with your friends on social media so that they can find something to inspire them!
  • We all want to be renewed, don't we?

    Want  
    Source: www.hbook.com
  • I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened, and those notebooks became the fertile field of my work later on. There is not a book I have written or a picture I have drawn that does not, in some way, owe them its existence.

  • It's no fun being lonely.

    "Maurice Sendak: 'I refuse to lie to children'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2011.
  • There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

    Book   Reading  
  • It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music. I have nothing now but praise for my life.

    Book   Blessing   Praise  
    "'Fresh Air' Remembers Author Maurice Sendak". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kut.org. June 10, 2015.
  • Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.

    Smart   Writing   Kids  
    "Maurice Sendak Sheds Moonlight on a Dark Tale". www.nytimes.com. 1993.
  • I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'

    Interview with Stephen Colbert, www.colbertnewshub.com. January 25, 2012.
  • Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.

  • I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?

    "Maurice Sendak: 'Where the Wild Things Are'". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.
  • I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all.

    Want   Ends   Ripeness  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

  • Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.

    Crazy   Yummy   Jumping  
    "Maurice Sendak: 'I refuse to lie to children'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2011.
  • [Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.

    Source: www.hbook.com
  • I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

    "Maurice Sendak: On Life, Death And Children's Lit". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2011.
  • I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.

    Mother   Hurt   Cooking  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

    Names   Tag   Idiot  
    "Maurice Sendak Sheds Moonlight on a Dark Tale" by Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. September 20, 1993.
  • Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.

    Soup   Chickens   Rice  
    Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months (1962)
  • The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

    Newman  
  • 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.

    Children   Mean   Pockets  
    "'Fresh Air' Remembers Author Maurice Sendak". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kut.org. June 10, 2015.
  • I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

    Hate   Book   May  
  • Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

    Book   Kids   Marketing  
  • I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

    "This Pig Wants To Party: Maurice Sendak's Latest". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 20, 2011.
  • I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

    Hate   School   Way  
  • And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

    Eye   Teeth   Claws  
    Maurice Sendak (1964). “Where the wild things are”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • 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.

    Brother   Mean   Drawing  
    "Maurice Sendak's dark visions delighted generations of children" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.
  • Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.

    Stars   Kids   Enjoy  
  • I'm totally crazy, I know that.

    Crazy   Knows  
    Interview with Emma Brockes, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.
  • My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.

  • To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

  • I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.

    Crazy   Essence   Likes  
    Interview with Emma Brockes, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.
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  • We hope you have found the saying you were looking for in our collection! At the moment, we have collected 188 quotes from the Illustrator Maurice Sendak, starting from June 10, 1928! We periodically replenish our collection so that visitors of our website can always find inspirational quotes by authors from all over the world! Come back to us again!