"When I finish writing a novel, I find myself wanting to head in a new direction. That’s why after writing Rules of Ci…"

"I think that, for the most part, I've have always tried to keep my focus on telling a story without worrying about wh…"

"The 1930s . . . What a grueling decade that was. I was sixteen when the began, just old enough to have had all my dre…"

"Eve Ross . . . Eve was one of those surprising beauties from the . In New York it becomes so easy to assume that the …"

"In three bestselling novels over eight years, Amor Towles has established himself as one of our most beloved contempo…"

"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"

"Democracy is clearly most appropriate for countries which enjoy an economic surplus and least appropriate for countri…"

"Here, for the last time together, appeared a triumvirate of old men, relics of a golden age, who still towered like g…"

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"There are things in one's thoughts sometimes, particularly upon humorous themes, that can not be put with near as muc…"