Elizabeth Kostova

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

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

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.