As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.