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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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Children
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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.
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
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I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
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I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.
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I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
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Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.
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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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There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
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I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.
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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
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Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.
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