Astrid Lindgren Quotes
Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.
Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.
What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.
There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.
Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.
No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.
I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
it's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.