“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
“Te osobe stvaraju dojam kao da je u njima sačuvano više sjećanja na našu nevinost, kao da su čudo prirode i da… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who easily judges something or someone. — Olga Tokarczuk Judges Copy Share Image
Anglo-Saxons have a view that history is ordered and chronological, and I think that fed into the development of the realist middle-class… — Olga Tokarczuk Cup of tea Copy Share Image
I decided to write a crime novel. That genre was at the height of its popularity in Poland, so I thought it… — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity.… — Olga Tokarczuk Books 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
But the fact is we did have colonies in the east of Poland, we did have a slave economy there. But this… — Olga Tokarczuk Country Copy Share Image
“Uvečer promatram Veneru, podrobno pratim promjene te lijepe Gospođice. Više je volim kao večernju zvijezdu, kada se pojavljuje niotkud, kao začarana, i… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I write books to open people's minds, to present new perspectives, to make people realize that what they think is obvious is… — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
“Speaking does harm, sows confusion and weakens things that are obvious. Speaking makes me tremble inside. I don't think I have ever… — Olga Tokarczuk Entire life Copy Share Image
We know so much about planets and the universe and small particles and we do not know anything about the inner state… — Olga Tokarczuk Anything Copy Share Image
I found Leonora Carrington's 'The Hearing Trumpet' really funny. — Olga Tokarczuk Found 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
We invented a history of Poland as a tolerant, open country, a country that has not been tainted by any atrocities committed… — Olga Tokarczuk Atrocities Copy Share Image
I realized that we don't travel in such a linear way anymore but rather jump from one point to another and back… — Olga Tokarczuk Again Copy Share Image
Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution. — Olga Tokarczuk Always Copy Share Image
I think that first-person narration is very characteristic of contemporary optics, in which the individual performs the role of subjective center of… — Olga Tokarczuk I think Copy Share Image
In a certain sense we can be proud to have introduced this hairstyle to Europe. 'Plica polonica' should be added to the… — Olga Tokarczuk Crude oil Copy Share Image
The world is a fabric we weave daily on the great looms of information, discussions, films, books, gossip, little anecdotes. — 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 Big 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 Books 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 Believe Copy Share Image
