Book Quote by Calvin Trillin Download Open image “Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.” — Calvin Trillin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Easier
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 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
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
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
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand. — Lauren Conrad 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
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
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
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 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 am firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly.... And that goes for the opposition as well.” — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“All White House hopefuls we forewarn: You'll have to prove that you were born. Before Trump hits the state of granite, He must identify… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards? — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Fairs are good places to eat, particularly for stand-up eaters--which is one of the kinds of eaters I am, although when I eat standing… — Calvin Trillin 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
