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
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.
remember found anthropologists
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.
heart broken
..then you must say to her, ‘Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...
talking silence moments
There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.
giving-up book smell
And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?
home mind next
It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.
wise writing trying
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 simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.
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.
real historical details
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 Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments,
passion past invoke
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 which I have lived.
people gypsy jew
We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.
fall passion people
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 falls over.
looks faces firsts
For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.