Maurice Sendak Reveals What Made ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ a Book Adored by All
“Fantasy makes sense only if it's rooted ten feet deep in reality.”
Fantasy makes sense only if it's rooted ten feet deep in reality.
What I don't like are formless, floating fantasies.
Recently, a student asked me if I ever sit down with the intention of doing a children's book dealing with anxiety.
Of course I don't, I told him.
If I did, I'd hardly be any kind of creative artist.
When I write and draw, I'm experiencing what the child in the book is going through.
For me, ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ was a personal exorcism.
It went deeper into my own childhood than anything I've done before.