Quotes of: Book-tour Keyword

Back in I want to say 2011, Taylor Swift was on her 'Speak Now' tour. She was kind enough to bring me out as one of the openers on that tour. Between her and Miranda Lambert, who also helped me out that year, I got a pretty non-typical first tour as ...

Charlie Worsham

I enjoyed the two years I was with Clannad. I enjoyed touring. We toured a lot in Europe.

Enya

If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

Pat Garrett

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

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

I've said before that the Ryder Cup is not the European Tour versus the American Tour. It's Europe's best golfers against the US.

Lee Westwood

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

Phil Collins

I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas.

Theophilus London

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

Deana Carter

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

Jonathan Frid

Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: Cody’s in Berkeley, seven branch libraries in Philadelphia, twelve of the fourteen bookstores in Ha...

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest ...

Jeff Dunham

I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.

Mayer Hawthorne

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.

James Surowiecki

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

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

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

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...

Kazuo Ishiguro

I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.

Anthony Bourdain

If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.

A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England in the Summer of 1835

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