Amor Towles Quotes

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

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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

Yotam Ottolenghi
- Nothing
- Cooking
- Eating
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

Zainab Salbi
- Up
- America
- Freedom
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

Dan Brown
- Different
- Writing
- Trying
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

J. Philippe Rushton
- Life
- God
- Believe
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.

Ian McShane
- Heart
- American
- Guy
By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.

Edmund Morgan
- History
- Past
- Best