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… - Olga Tokarczuk

I think, this moment I decided to move to the countryside and then … because I grew up as a child in the countryside, then after big cities and this kind of chaotic life, I came back to the nature. And then I discovered a kind of different state of mind which was very good for my writing and gave me a kind of concentration, silence, inner silence.

We’re living in such a crazy world that we need to redefine what a novel is for us.

I keep wondering if these days it’s possible to find the foundations of a new story that’s universal, comprehensive, all-inclusive, rooted in nature, full of contexts and at the same time understandable.