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Amor Towles

My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down.

– Amor Towles

Amor Towles

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

– Amor Towles

Amor Towles

I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.

– Amor Towles

Amor Towles

Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th century. It was not an evolution. It was not a slow process.

– Amor Towles

Amor Towles

I prefer to put myself in an environment that’s further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.

– Amor Towles

Amor Towles

My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun – and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art.

– Amor Towles

Amor Towles

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

– Amor Towles

Amor Towles

You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren’t allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn’t please the eye.

– Amor Towles

Amor Towles

Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in life, when I got out of graduate school and imagined myself living the life of a writer like Hemingway or Kerouac, his practical self inevitably encouraged me to get a steady a job and raise a family, just like he did.

– Amor Towles

Amor Towles

I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays in places like Geneva.

– Amor Towles

Amor Towles

In 1989, I had a fellowship to teach for Yale in China for two years. I came back from California to New Haven to spend the summer learning Chinese, but because of Tiananmen Square, Yale cancelled the program.

– Amor Towles

Amor Towles

I had read Harold Bloom’s ‘Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?’ Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

– Amor Towles

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