Fredrick Backman > Quotes

“If you can do something for someone in such a way that they think they managed it all on their own, then you’ve done a good job.”
― Fredrick Backman

“We become what we are told we are.”
― Fredrick Backman

“Yes, Grandpa, the teachers are better. I'm one of them now. The teachers are great now.”
― Fredrick Backman

“It is an act of violence when an adult yells at a child, all adults know that deep down, because all adults were once little.”
― Fredrick Backman

“Our teacher mead us right a story about what we want to be when we are big"

"What did you write?

"I wrote that I wanted to concentrate on being little first."

"That's a very good answer."

"Isn't it? I would rather be old than a grown up. All grown ups and angry, it's just children and old people who laugh. "

"Did you write that ?"

"Yes"

"What did you teacher say?"

"She said I hadn't understood the task."

"And what did you say?"

"I said she hadn't understood my answer.”
― Fredrick Backman

“...Life is both complicated and simple.
Which is why there are cookies.”
― Fredrick Backman

“Being a writer is the best way I know of getting praise for being insane”
― Fredrick Backman

“The only time you've failed is if you don't try once more”
― Fredrick Backman

“That’s the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people’s.”
“It’s such an odd thing, the way you can know someone so perfectly through what they read.”
― Fredrick Backman

“It's hard to tell a story, any story, but it's almost impossible if it's your own. You always start at the wrong end, always say too much or too little, always miss the most important parts.”
― Fredrick Backman

“Sometimes the strongest person isn't the one who hits. It's the one who doesn't hit back.”
― Fredrick Backman

“People we love will die. We will bury our children beneath our most beautiful trees.”
― Fredrick Backman

“The world is full of miracles, but none greater than how far a young person can be carried by someone else’s belief in them.”
― Fredrick Backman

“Yet the most remarkable thing about losing a parent is that you don't even need to miss them for their loss to be felt. The basic function of a parent is just to exist.”
― Fredrick Backman

“A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can't do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right.”
― Fredrick Backman