To write is to look for very particular, specific points of view on reality. — Olga Tokarczuk Look Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who easily judges something or someone. — Olga Tokarczuk Easily Copy Share Image
I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down. — Olga Tokarczuk Believe 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
I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them. — Olga Tokarczuk Enjoy Copy Share Image
“(...) ograniczenie umysłowe i okrucieństwo ludzkie nie zna granic.” — Olga Tokarczuk Cruelty 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
How we think about the world and - perhaps even more importantly - how we narrate it have a massive significance, therefore,… — Olga Tokarczuk Exist 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
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
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
Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness. — Olga Tokarczuk Emptiness Copy Share Image
Seeing everything means recognizing the ultimate fact that all things that exist are mutually connected into a single whole, even if the… — Olga Tokarczuk Connections 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 Details 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 Toga 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
Everything that was interesting was outside of Poland. Great music, art, film, hippies, Mick Jagger. It was impossible even to dream of… — Olga Tokarczuk Art 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… — Olga Tokarczuk Hate Copy Share Image
Poland was once a powerful imperial country that disappeared from maps of Europe for more than 100 years. It was partitioned and… — Olga Tokarczuk Believe Copy Share Image
“Te osobe stvaraju dojam kao da je u njima sačuvano više sjećanja na našu nevinost, kao da su čudo prirode i da… — Olga Tokarczuk Toga 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 Toga 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 Toga 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 Toga 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 Toga Copy Share Image
“The human psyche evolved in order to defend itself against seeing the truth. To prevent us from catching sight of the mechanism.… — Olga Tokarczuk Existential 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 Toga Copy Share Image
We can feel in Poland a kind of phantom pain for lost multi-ethnic territories. — Olga Tokarczuk Feel Copy Share Image
Polish literature can be interesting to the world. I'm happy to be the trailblazer. — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all. — Olga Tokarczuk Crime Copy Share Image
If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it… — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at… — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act. — Olga Tokarczuk Clothes Copy Share Image
