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.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the transformative power of literature, especially for children who possess imagination and wonder.
Astrid Lindgren expresses a desire to write for those who have the capacity for imagination and innocence, which she associates with children. She believes that children, through their ability to engage deeply with stories, can create miraculous experiences, highlighting the unique and powerful relationship between literature and youthful readers.
In practice
During a children's literature conference to inspire upcoming writers.
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 enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant.
I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff?
You can never learn anything that you did not already know
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