“I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.”

—  Maurice Sendak

As quoted in "Sendak Is Forming Company for National Children's Theater" by Eleanor Blau, in The New York Times (25 October 1990) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D61F3DF936A15753C1A966958260&scp=1&sq=Sendak+reduction&st=nyt

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American illustrator and writer of children's books 1928–2012

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