76 Quotes by Astrid Lindgren

It's got to go bang and it has to be fun, otherwise I won't come!

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.

Det var som när man rider i en dröm, en sådan där hemsk dröm, som man vaknar ur med ett skrik och ligger och är rädd av en lång stund efteråt. Men det här var inte en sådan dröm som man vaknade ur. Vi red och red. Vi visste inte vart. Vi visste inte hur långt. Vi bara red genom natten.

Ronia felt no joy, and she wondered glumly if things could ever be as they had been before.

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.

He's the strongest man in the world.''Man, yes,' said Pippi, 'but I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that.

it's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.

Und wenn ich mal heirate, dann muss mein Mann zwei Bedingungen erfüllen: Er muss Bücher und Kinder lieben, alles andere ist nicht so wichtig. Ich meine, wie er aussieht und so. Obwohl es ja nicht schaden könnte, wenn er schöne Zähne hätte.

Summer would not last forever; he knew it and Ronia knew it. But now they began to live as if it would, and as far as possible they pushed away all painful thoughts of winter.