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 More Quotes by Maurice Sendak More Quotes From Maurice Sendak My brother, who was older, was the gifted one, much more talented than I. Maurice Sendak gifted my-brother brother [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. Maurice Sendak drawing brother new-york I never thought of Bumble-Ardy in that way. But I still have that same deep feeling for children who are in dire trouble. I see Bumble-Ardy as a lonely, unhappy kid who is doing the very best he can to be in the world, to have a party. Maurice Sendak party lonely children I had lost my sister recently, too, which meant that my whole family was gone. I was the baby of the family. There were five Sendaks and there were five Wild Things, and now there's only one Sendak, and he's about to bite the dust, too! Life, as I said before, was very difficult at that time and so it was natural that there would be a change in the look of things. Also, I was very impressed with my own strength in doing this under the circumstances in which I was living. Maurice Sendak dust would-be baby In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into Yiddish and sang on a stage in New York City. Thank God very few people knew I was doing it! But the kids in the audience loved it - even though it was all in Yiddish. Maurice Sendak new-york kids years I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself. Maurice Sendak age want writing For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was very macho, was a strong swimmer and was terribly disappointed to have children who didn't swim. Once when my mother was sitting in a beach chair - I can still see the big umbrella - she called to my father, "Throw them in! Throw them in! They'll swim!" So he did. Then he looked down, and there were the three Sendak children lying perfectly still underwater, not fighting for life! Maurice Sendak brother mother beach The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been. Maurice Sendak twice been crazy world I refuse to lie to children. Maurice Sendak lie refuse children
