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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

Topics: American Aspects Being Citizens Era Extreme Focused Majority Much Repression Russian Softer Study Them Type Vast Vast Majority

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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

Topics: Admit Been Being Between Both Devoted Difference History How Imagining Like Living Lot Man Might Otherwise Present Resigned Situation Spend Student Things Think Time

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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.

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Topics: Admirable Aristocracy Aspects Behavior Course Cultural Era Finer Nostalgia Totally Unfair Values Want Were You

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

~Amor Towles

Topics: Character Down Early Me Often Pins Sentence Writing

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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.

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Topics: Began Bottle Correspondence Eventually Found Him Lasted Massachusetts Me Met Note Ocean Old Threw Years

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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.

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Topics: Back Certain Foundation Go Influence Might Research Scenes Some Then Write

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

~Amor Towles

Topics: Literature Love Period Russian Soviet I Love

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In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Architecture Arts Century Change Evolving Industry Music Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Novel Pace Painting Pretty Retrospect Seems Were

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Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their social circles and memories and mores. I'm one of those who draw creative energy from the opposite.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Analyzing Artistic Circles Creative Draw Energy Experiences John Memories Opposite Own Raymond Realm Seem Social Some Those Who Writers

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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

Topics: Back Because California Came Cancelled China Chinese Fellowship Had Haven Learning New Program Spend Square Summer Teach Two Yale Years I Came

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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