Quotes About Author

Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

I've never been on a paperback tour before, you know, because usually you go on tour when a hardcover comes out.

The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!

There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.

The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.

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.

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

Mostly I've just been stealing little moments for myself in order to write - in the bathroom at a hotel, or just slipping away for a half an hour. Amidst all of the touring, life has been happening.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

I've been really fortunate with touring and sales and all those things because I have such a loyal fan base.

When I started touring and coming to San Francisco, especially, I felt the most at home in America, other than in New York.

I love touring and I love being in the studio making music, so that's where my passion lies.

The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment.

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.

It was a nice experience to shoot on the streets of New York. Tourists are highly respected there and people are highly disciplined and polite.

Winning a pro tournament is another step toward getting fights against higher-ranked opponents.

To be picked for your country at any stage is a massive honour, and to be at a huge tournament likes the Euros is such a bonus.

Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.

I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

I've got some wonderful memories of the 2011 Copa America. It was a very special tournament.