Jerry Hall Quotes

Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.

I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

I'm tanned from head to toe, and it looks like I've been in The Bahamas.

Proust is a huge author for me.

I'd like to read all of Proust.

If I'm allowed it, I'm really looking forward to a little time on the couch and a little time on a beach in Brazil.

I get transported when I read books.

The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?" "No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'

Miami’s like paradise. And I think the beaches are topless. So we’re gonna spend a lot of time at the beach.