Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. Maurice Sendak More Quotes by Maurice Sendak More Quotes From Maurice Sendak 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. Maurice Sendak likes crazy essence As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books. Maurice Sendak dream book children It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. Maurice Sendak adults children thinking And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot Maurice Sendak waiting night years I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. Maurice Sendak believe children moving A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Maurice Sendak beauty inspirational funny I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.' Maurice Sendak writing children 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 climbing christian kids Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross. Maurice Sendak real children thinking I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book. Maurice Sendak hate believe sex From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things. Maurice Sendak frustration mean children Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern. Maurice Sendak theme childhood children You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. Maurice Sendak melville wonderful believe Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work. Maurice Sendak driving passion creative 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 rabbits writing I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence. Maurice Sendak innocence bullshit refuse That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life. Maurice Sendak live-your-life stories art I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago. Maurice Sendak typical men believe Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things. Maurice Sendak kings food world Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books. Maurice Sendak marketing kids book
