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Elizabeth Kostova, born on December 26, 1964, is a renowned author known for her rich imagination and profound literary connotations. Her works have won the hearts of readers worldwide.

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“I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.”

Book Girl Rich College Filled Angst My Future Spoiled Great Book Devastated Banality Collide Rich Girl

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.”

Thinking Knows Life Humans Evil Tears Ought Deeds Human History Fascination

Book:The Historian

Source: The Historian

“These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.”

Culture Atheist Saint Diligent Relics

Book:The Historian

Source: The Historian

“For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.”

Firsts Looks Faces First Time Excitement Subtle Traveler

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.”

Fellows Practicals Nasty

Book:The Historian

Source: The Historian

“The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.”

Mind Heart Doe

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.”

People Knows Jew Gypsy

Book:The Historian

Source: The Historian

“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.”

Ifs Past Passion My Own Invoke

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“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.”

Real Moments Form Individual Ability Imagine Events Ordinary Green Historical Details Shore Compelling Individual Life Historical Events

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.”

Book

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.”

Beautiful Historical

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.”

Years Cooks Bulgarians

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.”

Fame

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“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.”

Thinking Body Water Summer Add Practicals Faster Thick Soup Salad Yogurt Bulgarians

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“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.”

Should Writing Trying Hard Seems Happens Novel Pages Capable

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“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 stories and research into history.”

Thinking Important Stories Audience Research Historical Code Detectives Recognise Readership Detective Stories Da Vinci Code

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“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.”

Knows Writing Trying I Can Enough Wanted Purpose Wise Imagine Wonderful Circumstances Let Me Something New Formulas Publishers Backfire

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“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 see the point in doing that.”

Book Purpose Felt Written Reader

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

“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.”

People Sometimes Fall Passion Painting Arms Fit Damage Sculpture Statues Hysterical

Author:Elizabeth Kostova

About the Author

Born: December 26, 1964
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Quotes: 69

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