I Wanted My Wild Things To Be

Parents Shouldn't Assume Children Are Made Out Of Sugar Candy And Will Break And Collapse Instantly. Kids Don't. We Do.

I Said Anything I Wanted Because I Don't Believe In Children I Don't Believe In Childhood. I Don't Believe That There's A Demarcation. 'oh You Mustn't Tell Them That. You Mustn't Tell Them That.' You Tell Them Anything You Want. Just Tell Them If It's True. If It's True You Tell Them.

Then One Day My Sister Abandoned Me At The 1939 World's Fair, And That Incident Is The Essence Of In The Night Kitchen. I Was Standing There With Hundreds Of Other People Waving Back At The Little Midgets Dressed Like Bakers When I Turned Around And My Sister Was Gone! The Next Thing I Know I'm Screaming And Crying And Policemen Are Taking Me To A Big Place With Tons Of Kids Who Had All Been Abandoned Like Me. At Least I Was Old Enough To Give Them A Name And An Address.

It Was Inconceivable To Me As A Child That I Would Be An Adult. I Mean, One Assumed That It Would Happen, But Obviously It Didn't Happen, Or If It Did, It Happened When Your Back Was Turned, And Then Suddenly You Were There. So I Couldn't Have Thought About It Much.

You Cannot Write For Children They're Much Too Complicated. You Can Only Write Books That Are Of Interest To Them.