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Astrid Lindgren Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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

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



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

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



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



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

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



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 rarest kind of joy.

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 rarest kind of joy.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!

Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!





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