“I have serious flaws. And I think they come from a time of one’s life when one is very young and they stick to you like glue. And then things change when you get older. You’re doing what you want to do. You’re very lucky. Oh, the books, the books, the books, the books; the prizes, the prizes, the prizes, the prizes. It doesn’t matter that you’ve done a hundred books. It doesn’t mean anything when people say, ‘I read your book. I like it very much.’ People do say awfully nice things, but it doesn’t change the fact that you’re a stinky person by nature.”
by Maurice Sendak