Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Maurice Sendak


“I didn’t want them to be traditional monsters, like griffins and gorillas and such. I wanted them to be very, very personal. It had to come out of my own particular life. And I remember it took a very long time until that gestation occurred and when they began to appear on drawing paper, and they began to be what I liked. And it was only when I had them all that I realized they were all my Jewish relatives.”

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