A biography for Elizabeth Kostovahasn’t been written yet.
“... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.”
“To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.”
“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.”
“For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.”
“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.”
“The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.”
“I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?”
“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”
“I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.”
“Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.”
“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.”
“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.”