Skip to content

Books Quote by Amor Towles

“In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train…” quote by Amor Towles — Download Open image

“In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Books Coffee Day Find Fitness Myself Summer House Train

More by Amor Towles

“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…

Image

“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…

Image

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Image

“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…

Image

“In the doleful court behind my building a patchwork of windows was all that separated me from a hundred muted lives being led without…

Image

“That is how time passes when one is left waiting unaccountably. The hours become interminable. The minutes relentless. And the seconds? Why, not only…

Image

“Mishka would pine for Katerina the rest of his life! Never again would he walk Nevsky Prospekt, however they chose to rename it, without…

Image

Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities.

Image

“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.”

Image

“As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade. We…

Image

“For it is the role of the parent to express his concerns and then take three steps back. Not one, mind you, not two,…

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 miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort…

Image

Explore all 266 Amor Towles quotes

More Books quotes

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Image

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

Image

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

Karen Thompson Walker

Image

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

Image

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

Image

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

Image

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

Image

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

Image

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

Image

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

Image

Browse all 59,475 Books quotes