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Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.
All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.
There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.
How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.
I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.
Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don't know why. I guess it's because that's where my heart is.
I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.
I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
I'm not jaded. I never have been jaded. I've always been surprised at my success. I've always enjoyed it.
I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.
There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy.
Inside all of us is... hope. Inside all of us is... fear. Inside all of us is... adventure. Inside all of us is a wild thing.
The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
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
Venturing back further, learning is so slow. Accomplishment is so slow. Experiencing and evaluating your experience is so slow.
Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.
Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.
Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.
William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.
I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.
People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.
I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.
I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.
I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it, okay?
I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.
I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.