Amor Towles Quotes

“That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples. Death on the Nile, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murders .. on the links, .. at the vicarage, and.. on the Orient Express. I real them on the subway, at the deli, and in my bed alone. You can make what claims you will about the psychological nuance of Proust or the narrative scope of Tolstoy, but you can't argue that Mrs Christie fails to please. Her books are tremendously satisfying.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“...I have no intention of thanking people for things I never asked for in the first place.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“I have been known to fence with a quill”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“It was a book for when the birds had flown south, the wood was stacked by the fireplace, and the fields were white with snow; that is, for when one has no desire to venture out and one's friends had no desire to venture in.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow