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Karen Jackson
Karen Jackson asked Amor Towles:

What inspires you to write?

Amor Towles Karen,
I just love doing it. When I'm in a funk, I pick up a book by one of my heroes, read a few pages, and that sends me right back to my desk.
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My longer thank you for your writing appears on my website? www.AxelForrester.com

Katherine
Katherine asked Amor Towles:

I just finished A Gentleman in Moscow and it is one of the best novels I've read in a long time. Thank you so much for your words. I was wondering if you chose to title each little section with words beginning in "A" for a specific reason. Was there a significance to this?

Diane
Diane asked Amor Towles:

Hello, Amor. I had the pleasure of sitting at your table in Septembr in LA/Brentwood for a luncheon/discussion/signing of A Gentleman in Moscow. You may remember my telling you my GR Group was reading it in November and we shipped off a copy to a member in the UK! We read it and loved it! What made you decide on the title vs. Songs of St. Petersburg? Thank you, Amor.

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