“I love Val. I love my job and my New York. I have no doubts that they were the right choices for… — Amor Towles Choices Copy Share Image
“It was time enough for whole lives to have been led and misled... time enough, as the poet said, to murder and… — Amor Towles Poetry Copy Share Image
Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th century. It… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in… — Amor Towles First place Copy Share Image
When I traveled professionally in Europe, I would inevitably spend a weekend at the Hotel Costes around the corner from the Place… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“There he found the chef at his counter slicing a bulb of fennel, as four stalks of celery lying in an orderly… — Amor Towles Chef Copy Share Image
“For what is more versatile? As at home in tin as it is in Limoges, coffee can energize the industrious at dawn,… — Amor Towles Coffee Copy Share Image
“Taking a sip, the Count reviewed the menu in reverse order as was his habit, having learned from experience that giving consideration… — Amor Towles Food Copy Share Image
Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences… — Amor Towles Art Copy Share Image
“But there are tens of thousands of butterflies: men and women like Eve with two dramatically different colorings—one which serves to attract… — Amor Towles Butterflies 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Posture? Is posture a type of manners?” “Yes,” replied the Count, albeit a little tentatively, “it is. A slouching posture tends to… — Amor Towles Posture Copy Share Image
One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission Street, a few strides… — Amor Towles Bay area Copy Share Image
“Like the wheeling of stars,' muttered the Count as he paced. "That is how time passes when one is left waiting unaccountably.… — Amor Towles Stage Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, my favorite airport is Logan Airport in Boston - but largely for sentimental reasons. My first real summer job was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Why?” repeated the Count. “Why, so that she can be addressed. So that she can be invited for tea; called to from… — Amor Towles Communication Copy Share Image
“True, duels were fought by convention at dawn in isolated locations to ensure the privacy of the gentlemen involved. But were they… — Amor Towles Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“As the willow studied the Count, he noted that the arches over her eyebrows were very much like the marcato notation in… — Amor Towles Music Copy Share Image
“As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to… — Amor Towles Generations Copy Share Image
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“...you could just tell that if Rosie couldn't romance her way to the top of the Empire State Building, she was prepared… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“The little planes no longer circled the Empire State Building, but it was still a view that practically conjugated hope: I have… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can… — Amor Towles Art Copy Share Image
“Bred with just the right amount of fresh air, roughhousing, and ignorance, these primitive blondes set out from the cornfields looking like… — Amor Towles Blondes Copy Share Image
“For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of… — Amor Towles Civilization 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 Book Copy Share Image
“..the Zimmers sharpening their sarcasm. Over an early dinner, they chipped away at each other like little Michelangelos, placing every stroke of… — Amor Towles Religion Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50… — Amor Towles Age Copy Share Image
“Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They” — Amor Towles Beauty Copy Share Image
If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life. — Amor Towles Confidence Copy Share Image
“a careful accounting of days allows the isolated to note that another year of hardship has been endured; survived; bested.” — Amor Towles Another year Copy Share Image
What can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a… — Amor Towles First impression Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,… — Amor Towles Architecture 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 Book Copy Share Image
“—Did Eve know? About you and Anne, I mean. He shook his head wanly. The very definition of wanly. The apotheosis of… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“It rattled into the station like it was coming from another century. The interior lights cast a half-hearted glow over the nocturnal… — Amor Towles Light Copy Share Image
“Because when some incident sheds a favorable light on an old and absent friend, that's about as good a gift as chance… — Amor Towles Chance Copy Share Image
“Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few… — Amor Towles Immigrants Copy Share Image
Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Sometimes,” Nina clarified, “everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
