Affection Quote by Michael Lewis

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

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

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility.

— Alice McDermott

Good travel books are novels at heart.

— Jonathan Raban

Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.

— Richard Russo

Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially…

— John McGahern

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at…

— A. A. Milne

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

— Maurice Sendak

A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

— Moses ibn Ezra