I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire. Amor Towles More Quotes by Amor Towles More Quotes From Amor Towles We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted. Amor Towles being focused citizens study As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it. Amor Towles man situation time history Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable, and so there's nostalgia for that: the behavior, the values, the cultural sensitivities. Amor Towles you unfair behavior nostalgia Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities. Amor Towles spend hotels year time Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me. Amor Towles down me writing character When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found it and contacted me. We began a correspondence that lasted for years, and I eventually met him when I was 18. Amor Towles bottle old me ocean I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes. Amor Towles back foundation influence research
