Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson
Tove Marika Jansson; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. For her contribution as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966...
NationalityFinnish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth9 August 1914
CityHelsinki, Finland
CountryFinland
night journey
One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey.
pancakes jam dangerous
One can't be too dangerous, if they like to eat pancakes. Especially with jam on it.
lying adventure sleep
Look at The Adventure. A boat by night is a wonderful sight. This is the way to start a new life, with a hurricane lamp shining at the top of the mast, and the coastline disappearing behind one as the whole world lies sleeping. Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.
adventure writing childhood
I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture of comfort and adventure. An excellent mixture!
fear rain book
Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.
dog smell mute
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
snakes awful imagine
Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.
giving feelings gold
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.
friendship friendly impossible
You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.
family spring secret
One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.
book reading doors
When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. “Does your sister read our books?” Anna wanted to know. “No. She reads literature.
dream secret bits
It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early.
night use
One must use the night.
heart light lucky
My bag was as light as my happy-go-lucky heart.