Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren; 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays. She is best known for children's book series featuring Pippi Longstocking, Emil i Lönneberga, Karlsson-on-the-Roof, and the Six Bullerby Children, as well as the children's fantasy novels Mio min Mio, Ronia the Robber's Daughter and The Brothers Lionheart...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth14 November 1907
CityVimmerby, Sweden
CountrySweden
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.
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.
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.
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.
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.
But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?
But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
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.
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.
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.