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.
Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to understand him. Yet we know that the interplay of theory and research makes both for understanding of the specific case and expansion of the general rule.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
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