We can feel in Poland a kind of phantom pain for lost multi-ethnic territories. Olga Tokarczuk Read Quote
Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution. Olga Tokarczuk Read Quote
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. Olga Tokarczuk Read Quote
My books are not ‘political.’ I don’t make political demands. They actually describe life. But when we look at human life, politics creeps in everywhere. Olga Tokarczuk Read Quote
I create doubt in the reader’s mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things that are not obvious. Olga Tokarczuk Read Quote
I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them. Olga Tokarczuk Read Quote
When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at base, it’s a pretty costly enterprise. Olga Tokarczuk Read Quote
I’ve never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that’s all. Olga Tokarczuk Read Quote
