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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.

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.

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.

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.

No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I happen to think the author is the last person you'd want to talk to about a book. They hate it by that point; they've already moved on to a new lover. Besides, the author never knows what the book is about anyway.

I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.