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Maurice Sendak Quotes - Page 5

Art has always been my salvation.

"Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.

"Sendak Is Forming Company for National Children's Theater" by Eleanor Blau, www.nytimes.com. October 25, 1990.

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.

Maurice Sendak's acceptance speech upon being awarded the Caldecott Medal for "Where the Wild Things Are" (1964), as quoted in "Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books: 1956-65" edited by Lee Kingman, 1965.

I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.

"Commentary: 'Wild Things' is scary, but so is life". Interview With Ruben Navarrette Jr., edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2009.

I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished ... do I begin the pictures.

Maurice Sendak, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.

"Exclusive: A Talk With The 'Wild Things' Creators". Interview With Ramin Setoodeh, www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2009.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

"'Where the Wild Things Are:' The Psychology Behind Maurice Sendak's Classic" by Mikaela Conley, abcnews.go.com. May 8, 2012.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

"Something We Saw Online: Sendak, Remembered" by Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. May 8, 2012.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

"Remembering Maurice Sendak and the Wild Things" by Anita Voelker, www.foxnews.com. May 8, 2012.