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# Elizabeth Kostova

(1964)   Novelist   United States

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Elizabeth Kostova is a novelist from the United States, best known for *Historian*.

## Quick Facts About Elizabeth Kostova

Born December 26, 1964

Nationality United States

Profession Novelist

Notable works Historian

Known for The Historian

## About Elizabeth Kostova

Elizabeth Johnson Kostova is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.

##  Quotes by Elizabeth Kostova · Page 2

> [“She ate like a polite wolf.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/she-ate-like-a-polite-wolf/)

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[Polite](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/polite/)

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> [And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/and-how-could-anyone-consent-to-give-up-the-smell-of-open-books-old/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/these-are-works-of-history-about-your-century-the-twentieth-a-fine/)

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[Dracula](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dracula/)

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> [“Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/not-everyone-who-reaches-back-into-history-can-survive-it/)

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[History](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/)

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> [You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/you-are-a-total-stranger-and-you-want-to-take-my-library-book/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [“Didn’t Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn’t it expert in superstition?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/didn-t-catholicism-deal-with-blood-and-resurrected-flesh-on-a-daily/)

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[Superstition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/superstition/)

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> [“I preferred solitude anyway; it was the medium in which I had been raised, in which I swam comfortably.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/i-preferred-solitude-anyway-it-was-the-medium-in-which-i-had-been/)

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[Solitude](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/solitude/)

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> [“... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/i-grant-you-that-anyone-who-pokes-around-in-history-long-enough-may/)

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[Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/grant/)

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> [As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/as-you-know-human-history-is-full-of-evil-deeds-and-maybe-we-ought-to/)

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[Deeds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deeds/)

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> [If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/if-there-is-any-good-in-life-in-history-in-my-own-past-i-invoke-it/)

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[History](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/)

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> [No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/no-book-that-is-written-for-an-external-purpose-is-going-to-be-a/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/natalie-bakopoulos-has-that-rare-gift-the-ability-to-imagine-a/)

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[Ability](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability/)

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> [I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/i-believe-in-walking-out-of-a-museum-before-the-paintings-you-ve-seen/)

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[Believe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believe/)

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> [Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/sometimes-people-damage-paintings-or-sculpture-because-they-love-it/)

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[Arms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arms/)

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> [“And why should I do such a thing- tell you something that can only dismay you? Well, that is the nature of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/and-why-should-i-do-such-a-thing-tell-you-something-that-can-only/)

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[Dismay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dismay/)

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> [It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/it-was-strange-i-reflected-that-even-in-the-weirdest-circumstances/)

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[Circumstances](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circumstances/)

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> [“Then he said a strange thing, but to himself. 'They lived, didn't they?' And I said yes, that when one reads old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/then-he-said-a-strange-thing-but-to-himself-they-lived-didn-t-they/)

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[Old letters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-letters/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/it-s-a-shame-for-women-s-history-to-be-all-about-men-first-boys-then/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/my-publishers-are-wonderful-because-they-have-let-me-write-what-i/)

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[Backfire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/backfire/)

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> [“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/never-before-had-i-known-the-sudden-quiver-of-understanding-that/)

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[Comprehension](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/comprehension/)

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> [As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/as-a-historian-i-have-learned-that-in-fact-not-everyone-who-reaches/)

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[Claws](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/claws/)

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> [“Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/marriages-are-like-certain-books-a-story-where-you-turn-the-last-page/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/bulgarians-eat-tarator-every-single-day-in-summer-they-think-of-it-as/)

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[Add](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/add/)

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> [Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/never-before-had-i-known-the-sudden-quiver-of-understanding-that-2/)

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[Body](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/body/)

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> [“I lay awake for hours in my twin bed next to the other, empty bed, feeling and hearing the spruces, the hemlocks,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/i-lay-awake-for-hours-in-my-twin-bed-next-to-the-other-empty-bed/)

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[Nature](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature/)

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> [These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/these-atheist-cultures-were-certainly-diligent-in-preserving-the/)

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[Atheist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atheist/)

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> [I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/i-ve-noticed-dracula-was-often-as-practical-a-fellow-as-he-was-a/)

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[Dracula](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dracula/)

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> [It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/it-was-good-to-walk-into-a-library-again-it-smelled-like-home/)

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[Home](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/home/)

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> [“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/then-draw-everything-do-a-hundred-drawings-a-day-he-said-fiercely-and/)

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[Artist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/)

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> [There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/there-is-nothing-harder-at-moments-than-talking-to-someone-who-has/)

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[Harder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/harder/)

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> [“when the sun rose at the quarry it turned the world lavender and gold. After”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/when-the-sun-rose-at-the-quarry-it-turned-the-world-lavender-and-gold/)

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[Lavender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lavender/)

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> [For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/for-me-dracula-has-always-been-associated-with-travel-and-beautiful/)

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[Beautiful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beautiful/)

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> [..then you must say to her, ‘Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/then-you-must-say-to-her-madame-i-observe-that-your-heart-is-broken/)

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[Broken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/broken/)

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> [I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/i-wondered-why-she-craved-this-knowledge-and-found-myself-remembering/)

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[Anthropologist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anthropologist/)

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> [“Doesn't every love express itself this way, with the seeds of both its flowering and its ruin in the very first words,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/doesn-t-every-love-express-itself-this-way-with-the-seeds-of-both-its/)

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[Flowering](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flowering/)

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> [The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/the-problem-is-simply-finding-the-right-person-ask-plato-just-make/)

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[Finding the right person](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/finding-the-right-person/)

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> [He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/he-can-t-really-love-anyone-you-know-and-in-the-end-such-people-are/)

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[Ends](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ends/)

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> [The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/the-very-worst-impulses-of-humankind-can-survive-generations/)

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[Century](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/century/)

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> [We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/we-gypsies-know-that-where-jews-are-killed-gypsies-are-always/)

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[Gypsies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gypsies/)

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> [He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-kostova/he-brought-his-great-hand-to-rest-on-an-early-edition-of-bram-stoker/)

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[Hands](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hands/)

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## Elizabeth Kostova by topic

[History (17)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/history/elizabeth-kostova/)

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