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Amor Towles Quotes

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Life Confidence Looking Book Reading

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

Compassion People Law You Over

My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.

Waiting Professional First Lane Once

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.

Stella McCartney

Together Earth Understand Up Planet

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.

You Finish Dialogue Order Get Just

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

Robert Benchley

Saying Reading More Difficult First

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

People Think You Look Person Dead

Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come from. I see my future.

Future Day Parents Me More See

Music had always been a kind of anchor for me. But I didn't write my first song till I was 35.

Music Me Song Kind Anchor First

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Bold Endurance Prolonged

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

War Random Book House Photographer

When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Light School Fun Night High School

I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.

Life Day Every Day Write Where

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