Filled Quote by Alain de Botton

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

— Jennifer Gilmore

We've had a lot of agencies try and sabotage our tour.

— Glenn Danzig

I am not normally a fan of organised tours: few public figures are, feeling themselves objects of constant curiosity.

— Ann Widdecombe

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores…

— John Green

I've always done tours, and just as I thought I was getting good, the tour stopped.

— Omid Djalili

There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.

— Gerald Petievich

I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.

— Miranda Lambert

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's…

— Lev Grossman

As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know I am…

— Amor Towles

I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.

— Alex Gaskarth

I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do…

— Margaret Cho

Wanting to be near my bread and butter business which was my hairstyling salon, I have done little touring during my lifetime. I hate…

— Thomas Lynch