“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Dracula Copy Share Image
“Then he said a strange thing, but to himself. `They lived, didn't they?' And I said yes, that when one reads old… — Elizabeth Kostova Old letters Copy Share Image
I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life -… — Elizabeth Kostova Angst Copy Share Image
We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually. — Elizabeth Kostova Gypsy Copy Share Image
I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years. — Elizabeth Kostova Bulgarians Copy Share Image
If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all… — Elizabeth Kostova History Copy Share Image
What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my… — Elizabeth Kostova Ancient Copy Share Image
Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can… — Elizabeth Kostova Add Copy Share Image
“I preferred solitude anyway; it was the medium in which I had been raised, in which I swam comfortably.” — Elizabeth Kostova Solitude Copy Share Image
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his… — Elizabeth Kostova Attention Copy Share Image
“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.” — Elizabeth Kostova Life Copy Share Image
“Doesn't every love express itself this way, with the seeds of both its flowering and its ruin in the very first words,… — Elizabeth Kostova Flowers Copy Share Image
He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he… — Elizabeth Kostova Hands Copy Share Image
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me… — Elizabeth Kostova Book Copy Share Image
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. — Elizabeth Kostova Beautiful Copy Share Image
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with… — Elizabeth Kostova Century Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence. — Elizabeth Kostova Harder Copy Share Image
“As an adult I have often known that peculiar legacy time brings to the traveler: the longing to seek out a place… — Elizabeth Kostova Nostalgia Copy Share Image
“It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission.” — Elizabeth Kostova Learning Copy Share Image
“-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was… — Elizabeth Kostova Art Copy Share Image
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist. — Elizabeth Kostova Found Copy Share Image
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry… — Elizabeth Kostova Believe Copy Share Image
