

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children鈥檚 letters 鈥 sometimes very hastily 鈥 but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, 鈥淒ear Jim: I loved your card.鈥 Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, 鈥淛im loved your card so much he ate it.鈥 That to me was one of the highest compliments I鈥檝e ever received. He didn鈥檛 care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
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