You Can Start Making Up Any Kind

That's What Art Is. You Don't Make Up Stories. You Live Your Life.

I'm Totally Crazy, I Know That. I Don't Say That To Be A Smartass, But I Know That That's The Very Essence Of What Makes My Work Good. And I Know My Work Is Good. Not Everybody Likes It, That's Fine. I Don't Do It For Everybody. Or Anybody. I Do It Because I Can't Not Do It.

I Believe There Is No Part Of Our Lives, Our Adult As Well As Child Life, When We're Not Fantasizing, But We Prefer To Relegate Fantasy To Children, As Though It Were Some Tomfoolery Only Fit For The Immature Minds Of The Young. Children Do Live In Fantasy And Reality; They Move Back And Forth Very Easily In A Way We No Longer Remember How To Do.

I Had Lost My Sister Recently, Too, Which Meant That My Whole Family Was Gone. I Was The Baby Of The Family. There Were Five Sendaks And There Were Five Wild Things, And Now There's Only One Sendak, And He's About To Bite The Dust, Too! Life, As I Said Before, Was Very Difficult At That Time And So It Was Natural That There Would Be A Change In The Look Of Things. Also, I Was Very Impressed With My Own Strength In Doing This Under The Circumstances In Which I Was Living.

And It Is Through Fantasy That Children Achieve Catharsis. It Is The Best Means They Have For Taming Wild Things.