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..

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

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..

But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense..

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

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..

The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?" "No," said the girl and turned and came….

As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have….

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 labo….

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an ….

Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie, that's true," she continued. "But….

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 oc….

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 rare….

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..

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

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

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 managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied..

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

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first..

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!.