- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to write a crime novel. That genre was at the height of its popularity in Poland, so I thought it might earn me a bit of cash to go on with my work on 'The Books of Jacob.' I shut myself away for a few months and devoted myself entirely to 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes a global publication.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's a black-and-white photograph, which means that many of the details have been lost, turning into nothing but gray shapes.
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- Nov 07, 2020