Quotes About Beach Reading

#1. (Desk sex can be very, very good, but it's important to remove the staplers first.)

Sylvain Reynard

#2. There was also a daughter, very short, very plump, very gay, an amazing production for the Gregorievitches. It was as if two very serious authors had set out to collaborate and then had published a limerick.

Rebecca West

#3. He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head.

Vladimir Putin

#4. I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Jay London

#5. I am no David Beckham. I have not changed my life since I was 15 years old. My family is the only thing that has changed for me.

Adolfo Cambiaso

#6. Mexican, Mediterranean, Italian, sushi, I love it all. Put it on a plate, and as long as I know what it is, I will eat it.

Camren Bicondova

#7. Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

Dorothy Parker

#8. What I want in a good beach read is sunshine, drama, easy-reading and transportation to another world and other people's problems.

Jane Green

#9. Sometimes one's imagination can be more beautiful than the most picturesque beach.

S.A. Tawks

#10. But it wasn't until the bathroom door was closed that it really set in she was leaving and I ... I wanted another hug.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.

Jessica Chastain

#12. People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

Salman Rushdie

#13. I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never allowed myself to read beach reading. I was always plowing through Ford Madox Ford's 'Good Solider' or something I wasn't equipped to understand.

Noah Baumbach

#14. I'm 24, so I'll go out and, yeah, have a few drinks and dance - I love to dance - and have a good time, but I like to do other things, too. I like going to the beach and reading and hiking.

Josie Loren

#15. The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of loneliness, despair, and death. Let these revelers feel a chill as they loll on their towels.

Anatole Broyard

#16. Beach reading: Planning on reading, but failing relentlessly due to the heart-stirring view.

Malak El Halabi

#17. Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

Roberto Bolano

#18. I didn't understand the Kindle's true value until I finished an e-book on the beach. In sixty seconds - and without benefit of pants - I had brand-new reading material at my fingertips.

Jen Lancaster

#19. We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'

Chester Bennington

#20. I'm all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach.

Sarah Dessen

#21. The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

Harry Golden

#22. In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.

Jane Yolen

#23. Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

David Baldacci

#24. 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

#25. I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break.

Michael Hastings