If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Polish literature can be interesting to the world. I'm happy to be the trailblazer. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together… — 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 Copy Share Image
I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I believe in literature which ties people together, that highlights what people have in common, despite the differences - color, sexual orientation,… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
My books are not 'political.' I don't make political demands. They actually describe life. But when we look at human life, politics creeps in… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Reading English novels I always adore the ability to write without fear about inner psychological things that are so delicate. — 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 naš obrambeni… — Olga Tokarczuk 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 not necessarily… — 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 achievements, a… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
How we think about the world and - perhaps even more importantly - how we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore, a thing… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
In a healthy, normal society, people can disagree with one another, even have diametrically opposing views, and this does not at all mean that… — 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 kući. Svakodnevno… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I believe absolutely that words must be treated as material weapons, every invective or threat as violence and aggression. — 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 brown as… — 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 his books,… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I first read Sigmund Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' as a young girl, and it helped me to understand that there are thousands of… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
