“When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.”
Quoted in an interview, "Sendak on Sendak," Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia (2007/2008)
"On Three Ways of Writing for Children" (1952) — in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1967), p. 24
“When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.”
Quoted in an interview, "Sendak on Sendak," Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia (2007/2008)
"My Papa's Waltz," ll. 1-4
The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.”
BBC obituary (2004)
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
“They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.”
2018, "You are stealing our future" (December 2018)
“I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
Kerouac, as quoted by Allen Ginsberg in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice (2006), page 250.