I think the deepest level of our freedom is being able to change our identity. — Olga Tokarczuk Change Copy Share Image
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
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
I believe absolutely that words must be treated as material weapons, every invective or threat as violence and aggression. — Olga Tokarczuk Aggression 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
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
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
Reading English novels I always adore the ability to write without fear about inner psychological things that are so delicate. — Olga Tokarczuk Ability 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… — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda. — Olga Tokarczuk Books 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
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
But sometimes I fear that the people of my country can unite only beside victims' bodies, over coffins and in cemeteries. Like… — Olga Tokarczuk Coffins 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 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
We know so much about planets and the universe and small particles and we do not know anything about the inner state… — Olga Tokarczuk 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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 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 don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the… — Olga Tokarczuk Characters Copy Share Image
“S gledišta prirode nema korisnih i nekorisnih bića. To je samo glupavo razlikovanje koje primjenjuju ljudi." str. 156.” — Olga Tokarczuk 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
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
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 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
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
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
Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution. — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
