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" A book is a book is a book. "
Maurice Sendak
Book
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" I'm not afraid of death. "
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" I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. "
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" I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy. "
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" 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. "
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" As a kid, all I thought about was death. "
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" I have a good life. "
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" Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. "
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" Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth. "
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" If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. "
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" I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother. "
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" I would infinitely prefer a daughter. "
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" The world is twice as crazy as it's ever been. "
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Been
Crazy
" I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. "
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Children
" I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. "
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May
" You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. "
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" I feel like I don't have a lot of time left. "
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" I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. "
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" My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. "
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" I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person. "
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" 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? "
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" You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. "
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