All Elizabeth Kostova Quotes
- We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually. Gypsies
- If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with… All
- Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green… Ability
- Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing. Book
- For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. Associated
- I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years. Bulgarian
- I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame. Brought
- Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as… Add
- I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it,… Capable
- I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective… Audience
- My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not… Almost Always
- No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't… Book
- Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it… Arms
- You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. Book
- Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in… Bound
- It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. Good
- Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men. Boys
- When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. All
- What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains… All
- As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching… Claws