To write is to look for very particular, specific points of view on reality. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who easily judges something or someone. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos. — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
I think the deepest level of our freedom is being able to change our identity. — Olga Tokarczuk Change Copy Share Image
I adore Stanley Kubrick, all of his films were different, not just in subject but tonally. — Olga Tokarczuk Cinema Copy Share Image
I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let's make good choices, vote for democracy. — Olga Tokarczuk Choices Copy Share Image
Education, school should prepare us not to morally judge everyone, but to be able to find our own truth in this world… — Olga Tokarczuk Education Copy Share Image
A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a… — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
I try to do my job and be a decent person, and a decent person has the courage to face what is… — Olga Tokarczuk Courage Copy Share Image
How we think about the world and - perhaps even more importantly - how we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore,… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I dream of Poland becoming a modern society that is defined not by the crippling nature of history, but by our individual… — Olga Tokarczuk Dream Copy Share Image
Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I like to come back to the science fiction of Stanislaw Lem. He is comforting but also funny, and although I know… — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big,… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Your memory creates postcard images, but it doesn't really comprehend the world at all. That's why a landscape is so affected by… — Olga Tokarczuk Art Copy Share Image
The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Gnjev uvijek za sobom ostavlja puno praznoga mjesta na koje se odmah, kao poplava, ulijeva tuga i teče velika rijeka., bez početka… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is… — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition… — Olga Tokarczuk Language Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, as hate speech has proliferated, no one in Poland has been held responsible. The police take people's statements and dismiss them.… — Olga Tokarczuk Communication Copy Share Image
“It's clear that the largest things are contained in the smallest. There can be no doubt about it. At this very moment,… — Olga Tokarczuk Cosmos Copy Share Image
“Sada mi se razjasnilo zašto čeke, streljačke tornjeve, koji uostalom jako podsjećaju na stražarske tornjeve u koncentracijskim logorim, nazivaju amboni – propovjedaonice.… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Treba imati otvorene oči i uši, povezivati činjenice, vidjeti sličnosti tamo gdje drugi vide potpunu različitost, pamtiti da se s tanoviti događaji… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Nekoliko dana mi je jako nedostajao – njegova kozmetika u kupaonici i čak njegove prazne šalice čaja koje je ostavljao po cijeloj… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Sjedili smo u vrtu ispod stare jabuke na kojoj su se već zametnuli plodovi. Vrt je mirisao i šumorio. Izgubila sam osjećaj… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows how to cook parasols—you soak them in milk, then dip them in egg and breadcrumbs and fry them until they're… — Olga Tokarczuk Magical realism Copy Share Image
“Ne, ne, ljudi u našoj zemlji ne znaju se udružiti i stvoriti zajednicu, čak i pod vrganjevim barjakom. To je zemlja neurotičnih… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Držim, naime, da je ljudska psiha stvorena da nas obrani od sagledavanja istine. Da nam ne dopusti izravno sagledati mehanizam. Psiha je… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“(...) ograniczenie umysłowe i okrucieństwo ludzkie nie zna granic.” — Olga Tokarczuk Cruelty Copy Share Image
