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
“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
“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
“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
“at one time, I had them all. But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the young and high-minded; but when a person… — Amor Towles Danger Copy Share Image
“Since the beginning of time men in pursuit of wisdom had routinely retreated to mountaintops, caves, and cabins in the woods. So,… — Amor Towles Buddhism Copy Share Image
“The stamps on the envelope were English. One was the head of a statesman engraved in purple and the others were motorcars… — Amor Towles Stamps Copy Share Image
“Having acknowledged that a man must master his circumstances or otherwise be mastered by them, the Count thought it worth considering how… — Amor Towles Life Copy Share Image
“I suppose a room is the summation of all that has happened inside it.” “Yes, I think it is,” agreed the Count.… — Amor Towles Better place Copy Share Image
“Wallace was just the sort who blends into the background of the school photo (or the greeting line at the cotillion) but… — Amor Towles Character Copy Share Image
“..ust in time to see the long-strided watchman of the minutes catch up with his bowlegged brother of the hours. As the… — Amor Towles Midnight Copy Share Image
“Whatever setbacks he had faced in his life, he said, however daunting or dispiriting the unfolding of events, he always knew that… — Amor Towles Failure Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“...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
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
“There is is again, that slight stinging sensation of the cheeks. It's our body's light speed response to the world showing us… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We carry them from place to… — Amor Towles Friendship Copy Share Image
“Rather than tucking in blankets and buttoning up coats, we must have faith in them to tuck and button on their own.… — Amor Towles Faith Copy Share Image
“He had that certain confidence in his bearing, that democratic interest in his surroundings, and that understated presumption of friendliness that are… — Amor Towles Business Copy Share Image
“Suddenly,I could picture Tinker on the back of a horse somewhere: at the edge of the treeline under a towering sky...at his… — Amor Towles Ranch Copy Share 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… — Amor Towles Fear Copy Share Image
“But as the Greeks teach us, there is only one remedy for that sort of hubris. They called it nemesis. We call… — Amor Towles Comeuppance 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 Books Copy Share Image
“But experience is less likely to teach us how to bid our dearest possessions adieu. And if we were to? We wouldn't… — Amor Towles Education Copy Share Image
I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That… — 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 Books Copy Share Image
When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Well, sometimes everybody tells you something because it is true." "Sometimes," Nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
