Astrid Lindgren's best-known quotes, from interviews, letters and books
The top 3 according to 19 votes from people: I write for the child in me. · My childhood was lived in a country that no longer exists… where did it go? · A young, fresh and good time that is easy and simple to live in.. (Updated Feb 28, 2023.)
From "I write for the child in me" and "otherwise you're not a human being, just a little piece of dirt" to Pippi's "Terror of the Caribbean": quotes by Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002) from interviews, letters and her books, with the source of each.
Automatically translated (original in Svenska). See the original
Top 15
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1
I write for the child in me.
Expressen, 6 December 1970.
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2
My childhood was lived in a country that no longer exists… where did it go?
From Samuel August from Sevedstorp and Hanna in Hult (1975).
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3
A young, fresh and good time that is easy and simple to live in.
Jonatan about Nangiyala in The Brothers Lionheart (1973).
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4
We are all human beings – that has been my particular passion in life.
Letter to Louise Hartung, 1957.
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5
Oh, you can come along anyway. And dust the piano!
Pippi to Annika in Pippi Goes on Board (1946).
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6
I have never been a patriot.
Letter to Louise Hartung, 1957.
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7
Crime doesn't pay! Honesty is the best policy.
Kalle Blomkvist in Bill Bergson, Master Detective (1946).
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8
Otherwise you're not a human being, just a little piece of dirt.
From The Brothers Lionheart (1973); Jonatan says it to Rusky.
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9
I'm an old woman who is deaf, half blind and almost completely mad. And you've made her Swede of the Year!
Interview on Aktuellt after being named Swede of the Year.
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10
Sleep well in my hunger tower!
Sir Kato in Mio, My Son (1954).
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11
There were things you had to do, even if they were dangerous.
From The Brothers Lionheart (1973); Jonatan says it to Rusky.
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12
I haven't meant a single thing. Not with Pippi or any other book.
Rabén & Sjögren brochure, 1972, on what she means by her books.
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13
The Terror of the Caribbean, that's what you and I will be, Tommy.
Pippi in Pippi Goes on Board (1946).
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14
Her hair was the colour of a carrot and was braided in two stiff pigtails that stuck straight out.
The description of Pippi in Pippi Longstocking (1945).
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15
Two really kind and sweet girls.
Mother, asked what she most wants for Christmas, in Mardie (1960).
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