Maurice Bernard Sendak, 1928 - 2012
Tell Them Anything You Want HBO interview with Lance Bangs (2009)
Born: 10 June 1928, Brooklyn, New York
Died: 8 May 2012, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Biography from Wikipedia and The New York Times obituary
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- A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. permalink
Maurice Sendak - Emma Brockes interview for The Guardian (2 October 2011) - A happy death. It can be done. If you're William Blake and totally crazy. permalink
Maurice Sendak - Emma Brockes interview for The Guardian (2 October 2011) - And Max, the king of all Wild Things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. permalink
Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are (1963) - And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws. permalink
Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are (1963) - Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. permalink
Maurice Sendak - Children who fight back, children who are full of excitement are the kind of children I like. permalink
Maurice Sendak - "On the Phone With Maurice Sendak" with Panela Paul, The New York Times (16 September 2011) - Designing an opera by Mozart is like doing something for God — it's a labor of love. permalink
Maurice Sendak - Essentially, there is no protecting children. permalink
Maurice Sendak - "On the Phone With Maurice Sendak" with Panela Paul, The New York Times (16 September 2011) - From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things. permalink
Maurice Sendak - Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don't like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it's vapid, so they'll go for the hard words, they'll go for the hard concepts, they'll go for the stuff where they can learn something, not didactic things, but passionate things. permalink
Maurice Sendak - The New York Times interview with Sarah Lyall (1993) - He died a happy death. It can be done. If you're William Blake and totally crazy. permalink
Maurice Sendak - Emma Brockes interview for The Guardian (2 October 2011) - I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago. permalink
Maurice Sendak - Emma Brockes interview for The Guardian (2 October 2011) - I can't read the papers anymore. I just feel sorry for Obama. I want him so much to win. I would do anything to help him win. He's a decent, wonderful man. And these Republican schnooks are so horrible. They'd be comical if they weren't not funny. permalink
Maurice Sendak - Emma Brockes interview for The Guardian (2 October 2011) - I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. permalink
Maurice Sendak - "On the Phone With Maurice Sendak" with Panela Paul, The New York Times (16 September 2011) - I didn't want them to be traditional monsters, like griffins and gorillas and such like. I wanted them to be very, very personal. It had to come out of my own particular life. And I remember it took a very long time until that gestation occurred and when they began to appear on drawing paper, and they began to be what I liked. And it was only when I had them all that I realized they were all my Jewish relatives. permalink
Maurice Sendak - Fresh Air on NPR (1986)
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