Book Tour Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which…
— Burt Ward
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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
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My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will…
— Michael Lewis
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
— Iris Chang
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears…
— Louise Penny
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When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
— Rene Redzepi
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A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility.
— Alice McDermott
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Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I…
— Andrew Gross
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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
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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 with,…
— Anne Lamott
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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 much…
— Leonard Nimoy
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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 result,…
— Salman Rushdie
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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
— Calvin Trillin
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Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot…
— N.D. Wilson
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I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour,…
— Barry Eisler
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For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
— Jami Attenberg
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Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social…
— Jonathan Dee
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I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending…
— Jay McInerney
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When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.
— Armistead Maupin
Who Wrote These Book Tour Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 Book Tour Quotes as follows: