More From Maurice Sendak
- "I’d like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever."
- "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."
- "There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books."
More In Great
- "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."― Pearl S. Buck
- "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."― John F. Kennedy
- "Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."― Bertrand Russell