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
running believe eye
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?
complicated abandoned
Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
book long temptation
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
book wonder someday
...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?
teacher war book
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)
blood agony different
...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.
heart mind doe
The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.
home library walks
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.
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.
moving heart eye
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.