Seaside Retreat Quotes

A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.

I lived on Nantucket in college during the summer and have spent a lot of time there since. It's a special place for me.

I would love to go to a restaurant on the beach. And that could be in Miami or that could be in Malibu or Bahamas, Mexico.

In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon. I wrote thousands of pages there, but in order to see another adult human being, I had to steal out through the brambly side of the house, along the driveway down to the street.

One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.

I had big dreams when I was a boy. And I can't say that I never saw a beach house in Malibu in those dreams.

I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

Where I am from in Sweden was on the beach, so I love the sound of the water hitting the dock.

Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I've spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast - as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.

Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.

I'm near the beach, and I'm definitely a beach bum. For me, going to training and then going to the beach is kind of an escape for me to get away from everything and relax. It's really done wonders for me.

In my beach shack, we'll be alone. In my beach shack, I'll make you feel at home.

At home, we live on the beach, and it's like every day is a date.