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- Nov 07, 2020
Book Tour Quotes
On glamour, exhaustion, and everything between signings.
Two moods collide in these lines — one author recalling a tour so smooth that black cars waited at every hotel, another describing it as a slow, grinding string of small humiliations. A third admits that without real discipline they'd be doing none of it. More under About.
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- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited for me at every hotel, took me to every signing, brought me back, opened car doors for me. They were great. I was great. It was a wonderful tour.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 satisfaction.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book tours are super hard for me as a raging introvert. I love humanity, but actual humans are hard for me. So something like a book tour - where I'm constantly on the road - scares the hell out of me.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I traveled around the country on a book tour for 'In Harm's Way,' I began learning how certain Indianapolis survivors had heard these voices - not necessarily the voice of God, but often that of someone who had fostered them and imparted an identity as a person who doesn't quit.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know I am lucky to have a book tour at all.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020