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…

- Astrid Lindgren

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

- Astrid Lindgren

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

- Astrid Lindgren

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…

- Astrid Lindgren

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

- Astrid Lindgren

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

- Astrid Lindgren

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

- Astrid Lindgren

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

- Astrid Lindgren

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.

- Astrid Lindgren