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21 " Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so! "
― Maurice Sendak , Where the Wild Things Are
22 " And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start! "
23 " There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen "
24 " 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. ... 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. "
25 " And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws. "
26 " Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things. "
27 " But the wild things cried, “Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so! "
28 " Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice. "
― Maurice Sendak , Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
29 " I'll eat you up! "
30 " Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination. "
― Maurice Sendak , Caldecott and Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures
31 " He’s just a boy, pretending to be a wolf, pretending to be king "
32 " Oh, please don't go — I'll eat you up — I love you so! "
33 " 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 does it cost to get to where the wild things are? If it is not expensive my sister and I want to spend the summer there. Please answer soon.’ I did not answer that question, for I have no doubt that sooner or later they will find their way, free of charge. "
34 " Max dijo "QUIETOS" y los amansó con el truco mágico de mirar fijamente a los ojos amarillos de todos ellos sin pestañear una sola vez y se asustaron y dijeron que era el más monstruo de todos. "
35 " F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won't give a s**t. "
― Maurice Sendak
36 " Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy. "
37 " Messages are the death of an honest literary transaction with children "
38 " A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. "
39 " 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. "
40 " I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. "