Book Signing Quotes

Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep smiling - Fyodor.'

Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does. Would you sign the book to her?" What are those men doing there? And where are their wives?

If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.

If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome - my last tour almost caused it.

My favorite author is David Baldacci; I've read all his books. I even have a picture with Baldacci taken during his book-signing in the States.

I'm looking forward to coming to SleuthFest I've heard so many good things about it from my writer friends. I'm looking forward to seeing my buddies and talking to readers who want to know about the way I work.

I used to put black ink on the author's name in a book and write my name instead to check how it would look there - such was my passion!

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

I stroll along, talk, I sign books, people buy me drinks, I forget where my hotel is, I get lost and fall into some local body of water... done it hundreds of times.

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

I've never been on a paperback tour before, you know, because usually you go on tour when a hardcover comes out.

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

I've been fortunate enough to write a book and travel the country to sign and sell it, so I can safely say that a five-second burst of conversation while you're scribbling your name, over and over, is not the most reliable way to bond with Americans.

There's nothing like meeting a girl at a signing and her telling me that she loves reading now, and she's even writing her own stories.

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

I'm excited to see Cassie's fans and how they react to the ending of 'Clockwork Princess!' I love hanging out with readers and seeing the energy readers bring to a room: seeing so many people united in imagination is going to be wonderful.

The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.