Book Signings Quotes

#1. Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

Larry Hagman

#2. I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.

John Waters

#3. There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

Donald Miller

#4. There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good.

Scotty Moore

#5. I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have written something more sensible, because now I have to dress up as a pirate for book signings ... I would have done a novel about a man who hangs around with a gaggle of models.

Gideon Defoe

#6. I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

Patricia Cornwell

#7. But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black audiences won't come out for a white writer for the most part. It really is just a fact of life.

George Pelecanos

#8. I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Greg Louganis

#9. I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

Judy Blume

#10. I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.

Harlan Coben

#11. I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps? A special kind of card devised for the purpose?

Susan Orlean

#12. In my own book-signings, I find humility. It's always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.

Nicholas Trandahl

#13. When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings.

Jon Katz

#14. I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?

David Sedaris

#15. When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they were reading my picture books, and now they're telling me how much they enjoy my novels.

Grace Lin

#16. 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.

Robert Hunter

#17. There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings. Each calls for different skills. None of these skills, needless to say, are those that go into writing books.

Jane Lindskold

#18. It's not all book signings and publicity photos, you know. You want fame, you have to be prepared for a long hard slog.

J.K. Rowling

#19. I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

John Grisham

#20. Moms come up to me at book signings.

Judy Blume

#21. I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

David Sedaris

#22. I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

Brian Jacques

#23. The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

Chris Bohjalian

#24. If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.

Robin McKinley

#25. What is the luck of the draw that me - me - who finally writes a book, it comes out in the - in the - in the time, in the center of the first pandemic, H1N1? And I'm going out on signings, and I'm going out to the public. This is the one time when I need to be hermetically sealed.

Howie Mandel

#26. She finally found the strength to wake up to the emptiness inside her.

Samantha Sotto

#27. Death is not a Hunter's delight. Too final.

Karen Marie Moning

#28. You sit beside the sorcerer, your love, and unzip your ribs. Tucked under your heart is a small oak box, plain and unvarnished. You offer it to the sorcerer. 'I brought this for you.

A. Merc Rustad

#29. To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#30. 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.

Kate DiCamillo

#31. Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.

Robert Gilpin

#32. The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there and in Canada, so once a year I do a promotional tour, visiting a different city every two days, doing book readings and signings.

Denise Mina

#33. When we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You have to have catchphrases.

Julian Barnes

#34. In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.

J. Middleton Murry

#35. Making a film from the point of view of a young boy's eyes opened the door to another universe with lots of freedom and to explore a new dimension. This was achieved as I started doing things that were close to what exists in a child's universe.

Alex Abreu

#36. We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

Plato

#37. An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Irwin Shaw