Astrid Lindgren

“If you are very, very strong, you must also be very, very kind.”

“I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Don't you worry about me. I'll always come out on top.”

“I want to write for a readership that can create miracles. Children create miracles when they read.”

“If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood, then I’m satisfied.”

“There are things you have to do, otherwise you're not a human being, just a piece of dirt.”

“Laughter, not tears, is the most powerful force for change.”

“Mischief is a form of life force.”

“And so I write the way I do, because and only because I am a child.”

“He who is brave, is also free.”

“A home without books is a body without a soul.”