Maurice Sendak Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Boys

  "Maurice Sendak and childhood — we ate it up, we loved it". www.washingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

• Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Sometimes

  "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak" by Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait Of Maurice Sendak" by Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. October 19, 2009.

• That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

• 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Father, Stupid

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

• I would infinitely prefer a daughter.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother Daughter, Daughter, Mother

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Author Maurice Sendak". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kut.org. June 10, 2015.

• I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Hurt, Cooking

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was very macho, was a strong swimmer and was terribly disappointed to have children who didn't swim. Once when my mother was sitting in a beach chair - I can still see the big umbrella - she called to my father, "Throw them in! Throw them in! They'll swim!" So he did. Then he looked down, and there were the three Sendak children lying perfectly still underwater, not fighting for life!

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Beach, Brother

  Source: www.hbook.com

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