Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Johnson Kostovais an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 December 1964
CountryUnited States of America
writing trying pages
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, but I keep hoping it will happen.
summer thinking water
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 thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.
fame
I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.
years bulgarians cooks
I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.
beautiful historical
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.
life thinking evil
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
giving-up book smell
And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?
individual-effort generations lifetime
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
facts sometimes reaching
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 back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.
understanding preparation belief
I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.
real
Faith is simply whatever is real to us.
home joy strange
It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.
waiting different today
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 the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened.
talking silence moments
There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.