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Maurice Sendak
You cannot write for children... They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
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You cannot write for children... They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
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Benjamin Disraeli:
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
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Celia Green:
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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
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Hilaire Belloc:
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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
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Alice Munro:
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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
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Walter Bagehot:
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
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Douglas Adams:
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It takes an awful long time to not write a book.
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Germaine Greer:
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This sequel to The Female Eunuch is the book I said I would never write.
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Johann von Goethe:
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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Nora Barnacle:
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Why dont you write books people can read
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One of the few graces of getting old — and God knows there are few graces — is that if you’ve worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is the splendid grace. And I think that is what’s happening to me.
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You cannot write for children... They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
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And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things.
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Maurice Sendak:
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I wanted my wild things to be frightening. But why? It was probably at this point that I remembered how I detested my Brooklyn relatives as a small child. They came almost every Sunday, and there was my week-long anxiety about their coming the next Sunday... They'd lean way over with their bad teeth and hairy noses, and say something threatening like "You're so cute I could eat you up." And I knew if my mother didn't hurry up with the cooking, they probably would.
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Maurice Sendak:
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Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. That is obvious. But what is just as obvious — and what is too often overlooked — is the fact that 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.
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Maurice Sendak:
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There must be more to life than having everything.
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Maurice Sendak:
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When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.
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Maurice Sendak:
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An illustrator in my own mind — and this is not a truth of any kind — is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it, and the closest he can get to is illustrating it. And the next thing you learn, you have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author was not entirely aware of. And that’s what you hold on to, and that’s what you add to the pictures: a whole Other Story that you believe in, that you think is there.
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Maurice Sendak:
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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.
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Maurice Sendak:
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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