I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.