“I have no inspiration in England. In Greece I get inspired because there are stories and people I love, it is never quiet, there is always action,” the writer of the best seller The Island, Victoria Hislop, told ANA-MPA on the sidelines of the six-day Art Links exhibition recently held in Athens.
The British writer, who is living in Athens, said that “people living in London are afraid every day. I am not afraid in Patissia where I live.”
At a query on the return of the Parthenon Marbles, Hislop noted that ‘the matter is complicated and not easy at all’.
“When I visit the British Museum and see the marbles and thousands of people admiring them and afterwards I visit the Acropolis Museum in Athens and see only a few visitors, I think that, in the British Museum, the marbles may work as a promotion for Greece and a reason to visit the country.
“From an emotional point of view, I believe they should return home, but every time I discuss this issue with the director of the British Museum, he expresses his concern over the other exhibits of the museum in case other countries follow Greece’s example,” Hislop said.