Book Tours Quotes

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do book signings and stuff.

The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you to be a public person as well, and those are two separate entities to me.

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.

When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.

People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn't work that way. People have to see online promotions, see piles of your book in stores, and you have to make sure the guy recommends it!

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.

21 years ago when I started cooking, to be a cook meant that you were going to stay in the basement. Being a chef, you would never be on a book tour. You could never dream that 20 years later on you would be on a book tour. It wasn't a part of your dreams because it was just totally unrealistic. When did cooks - restaurant cooks, not cooks that have 15,000 television shows - when did cooks become part of pop culture the way they are?

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

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 will to live.

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.

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

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

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.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.

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 situations, we will often do so by sharing terrible book tour stories.

I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.

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.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.

Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

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.

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.