Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern. Maurice Sendak More Quotes by Maurice Sendak More Quotes From Maurice Sendak Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously. Maurice Sendak renown newts idiot 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 sexy feel-better strong 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. Maurice Sendak smart writing kids As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination. Maurice Sendak artist imagination writing 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. Maurice Sendak blessing praise book All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew. Maurice Sendak parent wanted If there's any advice I have to give, I would say it's that. If you're looking for a way to get closer to your kids, there ain't no better way than to grab 'em and read. And if you put them in front of a computer or a TV, you are abandoning them. You are abandoning them because they are sitting on a couch or a floor and they may be hugging a dog, but they ain't hugging you. Maurice Sendak dog giving kids Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. Maurice Sendak mother sometimes children One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me. Maurice Sendak creative grace noses Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. Maurice Sendak should kids thinking 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 writing book children Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so! Maurice Sendak wild-things please love-you 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 cry missing people I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life. Maurice Sendak sky blue thinking And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws. Maurice Sendak claws teeth eye Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of. Maurice Sendak unheard parent kids I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted. Maurice Sendak writing book children I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die. Maurice Sendak discreet parent children We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are. Maurice Sendak criminals animal kids We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents. Maurice Sendak christmas-card nice parent
