I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading manifestos. Collectively, they represent a triumph of style. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Right from the first, I could see a calmness in you - that sort of inner tranquility that they write about in… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day.… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But as the Count advanced through Essays Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, his goal seemed to recede into the distance. It was suddenly… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But it was the Count’s review of the Contents—a list of 107 essays on the likes of Constancy, Moderation, Solitude, and Sleep—that… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples.… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“-You've got a . . . Lot of books, he said at last. -it's a sickness. -Are you . . . Seeing… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“To have even one year when you're presented with choices that can alter your circumstances, your character, your course- that's by the grace of… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“Rather than sitting in orderly rows in a schoolhouse, wouldn't one be better served by working her way towards an actual horizon, so that… — Amor Towles Copy Share
That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which. — Amor Towles Copy Share
“Mostly, he said, I've been thinking about what I'm not going to do. When I think of the last few years, I've been hounded… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“In the doleful court behind my building a patchwork of windows was all that separated me from a hundred muted lives being led without… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“That is how time passes when one is left waiting unaccountably. The hours become interminable. The minutes relentless. And the seconds? Why, not only… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“Mishka would pine for Katerina the rest of his life! Never again would he walk Nevsky Prospekt, however they chose to rename it, without… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.” — Amor Towles Copy Share
“As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade. We… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“For it is the role of the parent to express his concerns and then take three steps back. Not one, mind you, not two,… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort… — Amor Towles Copy Share
I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know what they… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“Sometimes,” Nina clarified, “everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the Odyssey? Did… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in… — Amor Towles Copy Share
