144 Quotes by Elizabeth Kostova

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.

..then you must say to her, ‘Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...

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.