I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them. — Olga Tokarczuk 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
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
The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in. — Olga Tokarczuk Books Copy Share Image
“Historie życia nie są tematem do dyskusji. Powinno się ich wysłuchać i zrewanżować się tym samym.” — Olga Tokarczuk Life 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
From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is… — Olga Tokarczuk Death 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 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
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
“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
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
Two centuries ago, when our nation lost its sovereignty and was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria, Polish Romantics like the poet… — Olga Tokarczuk Crisis 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
“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
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
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 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
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda. — Olga Tokarczuk Books 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 in literature which ties people together, that highlights what people have in common, despite the differences - color, sexual orientation,… — 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… — Olga Tokarczuk Experience Copy Share Image
I found that traveling on my own created a different state of mind because when you travel with your partner or a… — Olga Tokarczuk Feelings 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
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
