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.
My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.
write what readers want to read, which isnβt necessarily what you want to write.
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes β morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.
Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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