But my friend Sarah sent me this interview with Maurice Sendak (of Where the Wild Things Are and a ton of other great books) and it just might be the best interview with an author I’ve ever read.
Take five minutes. Trust me.
I know, I know…too much fun for one day.
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I must confess I never read Sendak, maybe because I never had kids and taught High School forever. Anyway, thanks for the arrow in the right direction. I like his sensibility about life in general. I’ve often been called a grumpy prick, because I don’t suffer fools well, a gift from Mom, and life is too short to sugar coat the truth. What a tragic and rich life Sendak seems to have lived. Nice interview.
“I was young just minutes ago” – that line made me cry.
I think there should be a test , you should or shouldn’t have children . Brilliant . Not every one is cut out to be a parent . My own father married 2 of them .
I think if only the people who are truly cut out to be parents had kids, there’d be no people at all…
What he said about being an artist or having kids was bang-on though: “And I thought, If you’re an artist, you should not have children.
BLVR: Because they’ll come second?
MS: Of course. Or if they come first, your art will come second. So what are you going to do?”
Had to laugh about the ‘having daughters’ bit. He goes on about how they’re so much kinder and smarter and intuitive and sensitive than boys (as if). And then he launches into the story about a little girl who wrote to him to tell him she hated all the babies in his book and she hoped he died soon. Way too funny!
“I loved not being dead when I was a kid”
Got to be my favorite line of the whole thing.