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Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
Calvin Trillin / Journalist
Book
Easier
Book Tour
Reporting
Tour
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
Iris Chang / Historian
Journey
Book
Cities
Book Tour
Finish
Tour
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Mine's going to be the best book tour that ever happened!
Ronda Rousey / Mixed Martial Artist
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Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
Richard Russo / Novelist
Book Tour
By The Time
Finish
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When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
Rene Redzepi / Chef
Book
Catering
College
Public Speaking
Book Tour
Prepares
Speaking
Tour
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
Dan Brown / Author
Journey
One On One
Solitary
Book Tour
Readers
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Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various occasions.
Nina Garcia / Journalist
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The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.
Justin Cartwright /
Justify
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When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.
Armistead Maupin / Writer
Cyberspace
Hook
Planning
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Tour
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There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.
Margaret Stohl / Author
Cheese
Hotel
Loneliness
Sandwiches
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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.
Jennifer Gilmore / Novelist
Book
Sometimes
Strong
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Slow
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For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
Jami Attenberg / Author
Dozen
Book Tour
Drove
Forth
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I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
London
Traveler
Book Tour
Italy
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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.
Oliver North / Host
Break
Television
American People
Great Chance People
Book Tour
Cocoon
Directly
Interact
National
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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.
Amor Towles / Author
Jet
Traveler
Age Myself I Am
Author
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Count
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I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It's about a yard tall. Ah yes, a stack of lonely nights.
Billy Collins / Poet
Hotel
Lonely
Plastic
Ah
Book Tour
Nights
Card
Hotel Room
Latest
Picked
Stack
Tour
Yard
Yes
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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.
Leonard Nimoy / Actor
Book
Inspiration
Interesting
Pleasure
Satisfaction
Book Tour
Gratifying
Tour
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The origin of 'Lenny Letter,' it started because Lena went on her book tour, and she had these audiences, young women, really diverse and looking for guidance.
Jennifer Konner /
Diverse
Guidance
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Lenny
Origin
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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 result, drive him to write another book.
Salman Rushdie / Novelist
Book
Hate
Writing
Book Tour
Tour
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When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you get up in the morning until you go out at night. You, you. You get really sick of yourself.
Christopher Moore / Writer
Sick
Time Morning Always
Time Morning Night
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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.
Louise Penny / Author
Bears
Book
Discipline
Lazy
Mass
Book Tour
Eighth
Sofa
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A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
Ian Frazier / Writer
Opportunity
Attention
Book
Good Opportunity
Names
Pay Attention
Salespeople
Selling
Wander
Good Opportunity Your
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Summarize
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Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books.
Eileen Myles / Poet
Cookies
Audiences
Book Tour
Sell
Scout
Tour
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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.
Glennon Doyle Melton /
Book
Hell
Humanity
Introvert
Actual
Book Tour
Constantly
Love Hell Me
Raging
Road
Scares
Super
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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.
Jonathan Dee / Novelist
Sorry
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Sharing
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I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.
Barry Eisler / Novelist
New York
Allure
Book
Lists
New York Times
Six
Book Tour
Imprint
List
Tour
Venerable
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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.
Burt Ward / Television Actor
Christmas
Smile
Book
Country
Toronto
United States
Appearances
Book Tour
Personal Appearances
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I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.
Ann Hood / Novelist
Book Tour
Extroverted
More Than Anything
Split
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I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of literary blogging and get over the idea that sending an author on a book tour - to Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles - is a successful model anymore.
Jay Mcinerney / Writer
Blogging
Dallas
Los Angeles
Publishing
Angeles
Author
Book Tour
Literary
Houses
Informal
Los
Network
Sending
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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.
Maryjanice Davidson / Author
Doors
Driven
Hotel
Signing
Book Tour
Opened
Tour
Waited
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My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.
Michael Lewis / Author
Home
Book
Husband
Judgement
Book Tour
Tour
Wondering
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I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
Gabrielle Zevin / Author
Mind People Will
Author
Book Tour
Strongly
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I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'
Robert Fisk / Writer
Depression
Happy
Movie
Book
East
Great Moments
Half
Horror
Loneliness
Middle
Middle East
Moments
Sat
Tea
Life Great My Life
Sure
After
Balcony
Book Tour
Cup
Last
My Life
Spent
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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.
Doug Stanton / Author
Harm
Traveled
Book Tour
Fostered
Quit
Survivors
Voices
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'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.
Allan Gurganus / Novelist
Scared
World Trade
Anyway
Apostle
Believers
Book Tour
Stopped
Collapsed
Hid
Paul
Practical
Prayed
Published
Reviewing
Tour
Unto
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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.
Anthony Bourdain / Chef
Book
Chili
Hotel
Secret
States
Usual
Victoria
Victoria's Secret
Wake Up
Window
Anonymous
Book Tour
Chain
Either
Gap
Room
Right Away
Strip
Tour
Wake
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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.
Anne Lamott / Novelist
Air
Book
Brother
Crash
Excitement
Hurt
Leap
Little Kid
Mercy
Older Brother
Rising
Book Tour
Older
Having
Holding
Paul
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I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness.
Joan Didion / Author
Clouds
Flying
Following
San Francisco
Wednesday
Amazing Thing
Book Tour
Due
Francisco
Immediately
Lifted
Minute
Plane
San
Tour
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'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.
Andrew Gross / Author
Car
Blind
Book
Hero
Jail
Last Year
Thrown
Violation
Book Tour
Easily
Curve
Except
Incident
Minor
Pulled
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