76 Quotes by Astrid Lindgren

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?

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.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

Don’t let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.