Quotes from 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.

What should a good children's book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

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

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

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.

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 labor movement.

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.

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

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