Elizabeth Kostova Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book, Long, Temptation

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.19, Hachette UK

• You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book, Library, Want

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

• And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Giving Up, Book, Smell

• ...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book, Wonder, Someday

• 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.)

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Teacher, War, Book

• 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.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Girl, Book, College

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

• 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.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book, Purpose, Reader

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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