...There are certain books that I can’t stop reading... 

...like Bulgakov’s " The Master and Margarita "...

...J. Eugenides’ " Middlesex "...

..." Queen of the South " by A. Perez-Reverte...

 

...and of course Mann’s " The Magic Mountain "... 

...and Flaubert’s " Madame Bovary "... 

...I have to read these books at least once a year... 

...With each read , I find something for myself between the lines...

 ...something entirely new that I’d missed despite having read all of them so many times...

 

...things I find important today...

 

...things that help me solve some of my current problems or answer my questions... 

...This is the type of book I’d like to write myself...

- Katarzyna Bonda -

 

...beauty...

...intelligence...

...maturity...

 

- Katarzyna Bonda -

 ...I’ve been a fighter ever since I can remember... 

...I don’t agree to the terms other people want to force me to accept and I’m constantly on the run... 

...constantly on the move...

...I fight a lot of battles , I struggle against myself a lot of the time... 

...I sometimes wonder how much strength I’ve got left for all that... 

...I often succumb to doubt , but work always comes as a blessing at such moments... 

...If I were to describe myself using one word , it would be “duty”... 

...Yes , I’d like to be my own opposite... 

...Preferably in pyjamas :) ...

...But I don’t really think this vision might ever come true... 

...In my opinion it’s a utopian vision of myself... 

...On the other hand , though , I feel fulfilled where I am now... 

...success gives me a boost to overcome subsequent difficulties and challenges...

- Katarzyna Bonda -

 ...Bardzo duży okres czasu... 

...poświęcam na myślenie...

- Katarzyna Bonda -

... - Your books explore negative spaces: killings, a mass murder, alcoholism, prostitution…

...The really important subjects always hurt or strike a nerve... 

...But picking a subject like that in full consciousness, 

constructing a plot and juggling your own experience in the process is entirely different 

to venting your personal frustrations and bile... 

...You can only write one book like that... 

...And there is a great deal of authors who wrote that one good book and either stopped at that 

or evolved towards mediocrity...

...I now have the comfort of being able to spend between one and three years 

working on a single novel... 

...This comfort stems from caring about my properly understood self-interest... 

...How many authors are able to say that they have two or three years to write a book?... 

...And that they don’t have to work on anything else in the process?...

... - Probably just a few... 

...Even the popular ones write columns for magazines, work as translators or do other things...

...I don’t have to write columns for seven papers or commercial advertising texts... 

...Don’t you think that this is how the amazing talent of those people becomes diluted?... 

...And we all lose out because of that...

- Katarzyna Bonda -

...There is no chaos... 

...I believe in God, in this great energy that manages our reality... 

...I believe in the sphere of emotions and thoughts... 

...Before you dream of something or wish for something to happen , 

...you'd better think twice , 

...because it’s bound to come true...

...Sometimes we desire something, but this doesn’t really mean that we need it... 

...even if we cannot live without it... 

...Despite knowing that it will hurt us, we keep striving to achieve that one thing... 

...From the standpoint of a 40-year-old woman...

...I’m not sure if I could have predicted or changed anything... 

...if things could have taken a different turn...

...had I been wiser... 

...I definitely believe in fate...

- Katarzyna Bonda -

...I’ve been a fighter ever since I can remember... 

...I don’t agree to the terms other people want to force me to accept and I’m constantly 

on the run, 

constantly on the move... 

...I fight a lot of battles, I struggle against myself a lot of the time... 

...I sometimes wonder how much strength I’ve got left for all that... 

...I often succumb to doubt, but work always comes as a blessing at such moments... 

...If I were to describe myself using one word, it would be “duty”... 

...Yes, I’d like to be my own opposite... 

...Preferably in pyjamas:)... 

...But I don’t really think this vision might ever come true... 

...In my opinion it’s a utopian vision of myself... 

...On the other hand, though, I feel fulfilled where I am now, 

success gives me a boost to overcome 

subsequent difficulties and challenges...

- Katarzyna Bonda -