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While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Back Began Book Camera City Civility Collection Copy Dates Early Early 1990S Genesis Happened Hidden Late Many New New York New York City Portraits Rules Took Walker While Writing York 1990S 1930S

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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

Topics: Because Down Fun Grandmother Having Manners Marriage Much Off Proposals Settle She Simultaneously Too Too Much Until Who Woman

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As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a sense of purpose.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Awful Crimes Love Majority Population Purpose Russian Sense Survive To Love To Survive Trying Vast Vast Majority Were

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All the historical elements should feel organic to the story but not hammered down to serve a purpose.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Down Elements Feel Hammered Historical Organic Purpose Serve Should Story

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Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, sang out loud, or listened to the radio with frequency. The record collection in the living room was only about 2 feet long - and that included 4 solid inches of Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert.

~Amor Towles

Topics: About Collection Come Diamond Family Feet Frequency Growing Growing Up Herb Inches Included Instrument Listened Living Living Room Long Loud Musical Neil Neither Only Out Parents Played Radio Record Room Sang Solid Up

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To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Boston Boy Came Lyrics Revelation Something Suburb

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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

Topics: Banker Boston Dad Did Encouraged Family Firm Get Got Graduate Graduate School He Hemingway His Imagined Inevitably Job Just Later Life Like Living Me Myself Neighborhood Out Over Practical Raise Same School Self Steady Suburban Worked Writer Years

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I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.

~Amor Towles

Topics: After Always Anymore Claim Few Inside Make Thought Writer Writing Years You

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I totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Being Each Minutes Remember Stretch Totally Trying Unemployed

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I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That may be an aspect of yourself; it may be an aspect of something that you like, that you don't like. It may be an aspect that you wish you had. Maybe something you admire in another person.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Admire Another Aspect Every Had Individual Invent Like May Maybe Narrative Person Root Some Something Think Who Wish Work You Yourself I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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