Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Every single day, authors read at bookstores and libraries - and coffeeshops and bars - all over the country. And these readings are amazing: you get to hear the book in the author's own voice, ask questions, and meet the writer. For free.

I'm going to book-and-author dinners, and I'm the author!

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 vibrant and profitable.

My favorite part of speaking at events has never been the speaking, but the reading of my books.

My favorite aspect of being an author has always been visiting different communities and meeting my readers face to face.

I've loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

Most novels put out by small or corporate presses don't really sell that well - usually a thousand copies or so. Working with a small press, you have to be willing to book reading tours, plan events, make contacts with other small press authors, and find new ways of getting word about your new work out there.

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 think the author is the last person you'd want to talk to about a book. They hate it by that point; they've already moved on to a new lover. Besides, the author never knows what the book is about anyway.

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

I love meeting readers and booksellers and am beyond overwhelmed and gratified at the reception. Each day feels like an adventure.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

I go to a lot of conferences and conventions to meet with readers directly.

I always give a little talk before I sign books and ask for questions. I love the Q&A sessions. We have a lot of fun at my book signings. I make sure of that!

Often I go to book festivals and they just turn authors into celebrities.'

The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.

Author tours used to have a sense of excitement and pleasure, a sense of occasion. I remember stores having a table with wine and food. It was just a real evening.

I'm a book nerd, and I've seen authors that I love, I've gone and seen them speak or read from a book.

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

I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work. It's something I find very difficult. And yet, one does have some sense of responsibility towards one's publishers, to the people trying to sell the book.

Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all across America. Not because my novels for young readers are bestsellers - they're not by a long shot - but because today's kids love to write to authors.

I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.

Writers are nerds.