Books Vacation Quotes

#1. You can tell more about a person in 60 seconds on Twitter than you can by reading a one page bio, if you excite them.

Joy Cook

#2. Here's to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

Charlaine Harris

#3. My family never went skiing. My dad was afraid of heights and my mom felt that a vacation was only a vacation if it involved reading at least two books on the beach.

Lisa Greenwald

#4. I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

Michelle M. Pillow

#5. I don't need the water to be inspired. My stories inspire me, not the location of where I'm parked. And good thing, since I've had to finish books in airports, in the RV we used to have, the lake house, while on vacation, at home, in the kitchen when my office PC was on the fritz.

Lori Foster

#6. Humility is the best dress you can wear

Treasure Stitches

#7. I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.

Ryan Cabrera

#8. I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'

Lev Grossman

#9. Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.

Jo Brand

#10. Horror is about fear, about rising dread and unknown terrors, and in the face of such nightmares, the acts of good people can seem insignificant.

Shane Jiraiya Cummings

#11. I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#12. The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

Harlan Coben

#13. I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages ... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.

Adam DeVine

#14. Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

Padgett Powell

#15. Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

Garrison Keillor

#16. The fact that the site of narrative is an ideal topos disqualifies neither pornography nor science fiction from being literature. Such

Georges Bataille

#17. Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.

Mike Singletary

#18. Be an experimental person. Break up fixed routines. Expose yourself to new restaurants, new books, new theaters, new friends; take a different route to work someday, take a different vacation this year, do something new and different this weekend.

David J. Schwartz

#19. I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

Rex Stout

#20. A book is like a vacation for the brain.

Rachel Adams

#21. A good question is the shortcut to a good answer.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. I don't believe the inner work ever really ends, and sometimes I'd like to take a vacation.

Debra Moffitt

#23. When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.

Nile Rodgers