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I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
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Maurice Bernard Sendak
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If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.
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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.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
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Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that they were famous, and famous people have unhappy children for the most part. They don't have the time to take care of them. So he's a troubled pig-boy, a kid you've got to watch.
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I stress character, character, character.
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
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And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
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I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
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God, I had great people in my life.
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The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?
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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.
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Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.
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I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.
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You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.
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As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
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'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother stupid, inane father.
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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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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.
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