Elizabeth Kostova

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

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”