Book Quote by Alice McDermott Download Open image “A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility.” — Alice McDermott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Exercise Firsts Fitness Humility Writing
A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Book tours are super hard for me as a raging introvert. I love humanity, but actual humans are hard for me. So something like… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I happen to… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars, you are… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Some vestige of his race or of his sex made him think, whenever he looked out across the ocean: As it was before me… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous days of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“John Keane pressed his chest to the steering wheel as he put the key in the ignition, taking a deep breath as he did,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“The fourth contraction seized her and suddenly she was perspiring. She heard herself cry out and then she heard the children’s voices like sparks… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“THE TINY SPIDERS that lived in the higher branches of the downed tree (which now meant the branches that lay on the other side… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music in it,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Michael had slipped beyond the crest of the dune. Jacob was lying flat out now, on his stomach, his little men all before him,… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Not a soul,” Mary Keane said to her husband, the wind lifting her words, tossing them gently back over her shoulder, the way it… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“There wasn’t a tear to be seen on the faces of the men and women in the street as the two of them walked… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“His love for his children bore down on his heart with the weight of three heavy stones. There were all his unnamed fears for… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Mr. Persichetti knew that six weeks before its time and with a good thirty-minute ride to the hospital once the ambulance came (would it… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
