318 Quotes by Maurice Sendak

My work is not great, but it's respectable.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.

Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.