Quotes by Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak

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

Father

Mother

Stupid

[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.

Brother

Drawing

New York

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

Beauty

Funny

Inspirational

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.

Beautiful

Book

Reading

A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.

Italian

Opera

Two

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw.

Draws

Kids

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.

Brother

Character

Kids

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

Parent

Wanted

An illustrator in my own mind – and this is not a truth of any kind – is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that’s what you hold on to, and that’s what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.

Believe

Book

Falling In Love

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

Night

Waiting

Years

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Abundance

Accomplishment

Adults

Adventure

Afterlife

Age

Airplane

Anger

Animal

Art

Artist

Baby

Bad Health

Beach

Beautiful

Beauty

Being Lonely

Believe

Bigs

Blessing

Blow

Blue

Book

Born

Boys

Brooklyn

Brother

Bullshit

Cancer

Catharsis

Certain

Character

Chickens

Childhood

Children

Christian

Christmas Card

Cities

Classical Music

Claws

Climbing

Clubs

Conjunctions

Cooking

Country

Crazy

Creative

Cried

Criminals

Cry

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Quotes by Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak

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

[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.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw.

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

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

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