As a kid, all I thought about was death.
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
I'm not afraid of death.
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowh...
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.
Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.
My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind if it has n...
You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
Where the Wild Things Are was not meant to please everybody – only children. A letter from a seven-year-old boy encourages me to think that I have reached children as I had hoped. He wrote: ‘How much...
William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.
I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
Each month is gay,Each season nice,When eatingChicken soupWith rice
I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.