Book Quotes by Elizabeth Kostova

Elizabeth Kostova

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

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Someday

Wonder

Elizabeth Kostova

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

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Giving Up

Smell

Elizabeth Kostova

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

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Elizabeth Kostova

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.

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College

Girl

Elizabeth Kostova

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.)

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Teacher

War

Elizabeth Kostova

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.

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Purpose

Reader

Elizabeth Kostova

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

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Long

Temptation

Elizabeth Kostova

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

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Library

Want

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Book Quotes by Elizabeth Kostova

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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Thomas Malory

William Wordsworth

Philip J. Davis

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