Quotes by Erik Christian Haugaard

About Erik Christian Haugaard:

Erik Christian Haugaard was a Danish-born American writer, best known for children's books and for his translations of the works of Hans Christian Andersen.
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We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.

Erik Christian Haugaard

I had read history too closely, read of Caesar and the Roman Empire. I had not noticed that in the books there were white spaces between each line; the white spaces are there to remind you of the unspoken, unwritten truth. When one only reads the wor...

Erik Christian Haugaard

What I have told you is not completely true. You should beware, for often in this story, my words will be spoken out of bitterness, out of hate. The scream of the poor is not always just; but if you do not listen to it, then you will never understand...

Erik Christian Haugaard

I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.

Erik Christian Haugaard

Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.

Erik Christian Haugaard

The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.

Erik Christian Haugaard

Author Bio

  • NameErik Christian Haugaard
  • DescriptionDanish-American children's writer
  • BornApril 13, 1923
  • Died2009
  • ProfessionWriter