Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak
Maurice Bernard Sendakwas an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He became widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963. Born to Jewish-Polish parents, his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Besides Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak also wrote works such as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and illustrated many works by other authors including the Little Bear books by Else...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth10 June 1928
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Kids lead a very private life.
Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books,
It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
I don't know how to write a children's book.
I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.
We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.
I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.
There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.
All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.