Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off by myself with a book than do any of the dozens of things that children usually do to amuse themselves. I never aged out of it.
London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in t...
If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.
I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.
I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the 'Dangerous' and 'History' tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross.
People forget your face after a book tour or an infrequent appearance on Letterman, but put your face on your books and you're handing them your life. They presume to know what you think or who you are.
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.
When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.
Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various occasions.
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.
I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
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.
I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And...
A GUIDED TOUR OF SUFFERING: To your left, perhaps your right, perhaps even straight ahead, you find a small black room. In it sits a Jew. He is scum. He is starving. He is afraid. Please - try not to look away.
My fans are crazy, but in a good way. Very supportive, and some tweet me more like a 100 times a day. As for tour tales, I have a saying: 'What happens on tour stays on tour.'
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.
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
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.
My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything; people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.
