318 Quotes by Maurice Sendak

Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all.

Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.