Olga Tokarczuk Quotes

I found that traveling on my own created a different state of mind because when you travel with your partner or a friend there is an endless tendency to exchange information, feelings and associations.
I got my first passport in 1989, when I was 28.
I have never met anyone who wasn't confused inside.
I like to come back to the science fiction of Stanislaw Lem. He is comforting but also funny, and although I know his books, there's always something new to discover.
I love crossing borders.
I realized that we don't travel in such a linear way anymore but rather jump from one point to another and back again. So I got this idea for a 'constellation' novel recounting experiences that were separate from each other but could still be connected on different psychological, physical and political levels.
I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them.
I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.
I think that first-person narration is very characteristic of contemporary optics, in which the individual performs the role of subjective center of the world.
I think the deepest level of our freedom is being able to change our identity.
I try to do my job and be a decent person, and a decent person has the courage to face what is not necessarily pleasant, what is perhaps dark and troublesome.
I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let's make good choices, vote for democracy.
I write books to open people's minds, to present new perspectives, to make people realize that what they think is obvious is not so obvious, that you can look at a trivial situation from a different angle and suddenly reveal other meanings and levels.
If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it becomes, however brilliant, rather hard to travel.
I'm not one of those people who easily judges something or someone.
I'm too neurotic to be a therapist.
In a certain sense we can be proud to have introduced this hairstyle to Europe. 'Plica polonica' should be added to the list of our inventions, alongside crude oil, pierogi and vodka.
In a healthy, normal society, people can disagree with one another, even have diametrically opposing views, and this does not at all mean that they must hate one another. The Polish authorities, however, have made the division of Poles their primary task.
In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.
It's impossible to be ethnically pure.
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