I'm not afraid of death.
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...What I dread is the isolation. ... T...
I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...
I don't need faith.
There must be more to life than having everything.
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...
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
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.
As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
Each month is gay,Each season nice,When eatingChicken soupWith rice
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.
My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
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.
What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.
Let the wild rumpus start!
You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
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