-Jerome Kearn M. True's the name.
- Est. 12/13/1990
-Metro Manila, Philippines
-coffee and clouds.
-Pizzas and Nachos.
-Bicycles and open roads.
-Guitars and flashy lights.
-Football and narrow streets.
-street lights and stars.
-I am a slacker, not really.
-I don't dig fancy parties and all that shit.
-Not really a smoker.
-Alcohol hates me.
-I post what I feel or whatever.
-I'll be true to you.
If you knew just what to do, if you knew just what to say, i will hand it over to you on a plate. If you tell me what you like, if you tell me what you don’t. I can give you happy, hippie, happy time. But you don’t know what to do and you don’t know what to say, if you say yes, I counld stay; if you say no I will go, are you ever satisfied anyway?
You pretend to be a fool but you are not that cool, use your bullets on me, I will be your prey. You just keep me in suspens, got me hanging for a dance. I’m a really tasty pie if you try. So if you do not tell me soon I might have to leave the room, as I’m looking all my patience and you’re not looking so gracious, I am fast forgetting why… anyway.
If you just tell me how to play, if you just tell me day by day, I could be all you need, I could be all you want. So if I knew just what to do and if I knew just what to say, you would hand it over to me on a plate. I have tried so tenderly to not fully torture me but I’m doomed to wait on you,… room203
Miss Haviland: Is there any point that you would like to make, aside from the questions that have been brought up to you before and which you’ve answered again tonight?
Mr. Sendak: I love my work very much, it means everything to me. I would like to see a time when children’s books were not segregated from adult books, a time when people didn’t think of children’s books as a minor art form, a little Peterpanville, a cutsey-darling place where you could Have Fun, Laugh Your Head Off. I know so many adult writers whom I would happily chop into pieces, who say, “Well I think I’ll take a moment and sit down and knock off a kiddy book! It looks like so much fun, it’s obviously easy…” And, of course, they write a lousy book!
It would be so much better if everyone felt that children’s books are for everybody, that we simply write books, that we are a community of writers and artists, that we are all seriously involved in the business of writing. And if everyone felt that writing for children is a serious business, perhaps even more serious than a lot of other forms of writing, and if when such books are reviewed and discussed, they were discussed on this serious level, and that we would be taken seriously as artists.
I would like to do away with the division into age categories of children over here and adults over there, which is confusing to me and I think probably confusing to children. It’s very confusing to many people who don’t even know how to buy a children’s book. I think if I have any particular hope it’s this: that we all should simply be artists and just write books and stop pretending that there is such a thing as being able to sit down and write a book for a child: it is quite impossible. One simply writes books.
– Questions to an Artist Who Is Also an Author: A Conversation between Maurice Sendak and Virginia Haviland (a public interview at the Library of Congress held in 1971)
Maurice Sendak, a great inspiration… you will be missed.
“Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival”
