I try not to even think about the current time because I don't want that influence, I don't want that to be shaping the book Then when I really decide to think about it in greater detail I’ll take a couple of years imagining all the elements until I have a detailed outline that is the whole picture and then I start to write. “I might spend the next 72 hours thinking about it and usually I will have the majority of the key events figured out in that 72 hours, but it’s just like a scaffolding. While his writing process is lengthy, he says it always starts with a simple, one-sentence idea. In terms of what I’m trying to achieve I personally cannot be cranking them out.” I don’t think I could do what I set out to do in a year.
I’d like to be a four-year guy but I’m never going to be a one-year guy. But on the other hand Colson Whitehead is publishing a book every two years and he’s doing incredible work. It still can be very pleasurable but you can sense that there is something missing. ‘Even the very talented ones, many of them, four out of five books you can feel did not receive the full attention of their ability in prose or of their plotting or a variation in theme or whatever it is. “The success was a clarion call because at that point I was in my mid-40s and you don’t have time to do both jobs.”
But the next thing he wrote was Rules of Civility and that became a bestseller. He managed to write a book but he set it aside because he didn’t like it. I didn’t write for 10 years but then I began to feel if I don’t start writing again I run the risk of being a very bitter, drunk adult, and so I started writing on the weekends.” “It was easy not to write because the job was very demanding and interesting and entertaining and rewarding financially, and we were researchers so we were learning all the time. The rest might have been history had Towles not given his writing a second chance.
He had no money and was living in an illegal sublet, so when a friend approached him about setting up an investment company, Towles didn’t have to think twice about joining him. After graduating, Towles moved to New York City to try to write a book. He had made his career in investment, where he had worked for 21 years, but privately Towles had dreamed of becoming a writer since he was in first grade growing up in Boston.īy the time he got to college, he was on a direct track to achieve that dream, studying English literature at Yale, and then at postgraduate level at Stanford University. When Amor Towles published his debut novel, Rules of Civility, in 2011, he was an unlikely latecomer to the world of writing.
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