Quotes About Escape

I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

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

On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.

If I have time and the chance to travel in the Philippines, I would like to go to an island which is not popular to have a good vacation - you know, just chilling out.

For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'

I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

I just go home or on vacation, or together because Croatia is nice.

New York is like a vacation - no beach required.

I'm bad at going on vacation.

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.

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.

My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens.

I get bored of vacation.

'Vacation' means titillating my taste buds.

I have many favorite vacation destinations, but my favorite destination is Maui.

When my children were very young, I was slated to go on a business trip. When it was nearly canceled, I decided I wouldn't tell anyone and go off for a week's vacation anyway. In the end, the trip went off as planned. But I was intrigued by the idea of an illicit holiday.

Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!

My whole life is a vacation.

I take a week here. Maybe 10 days there. I never took a longer vacation than that.

When we're on vacation - it doesn't matter where - I will go and look for a game.

I do take a one-week vacation every year, and I go to London in the fall.

You can say you're going to take a vacation, and you can even take the time, but you might as well not, because the book is still sitting in your head.

In my head, I'd love to go on a vacation to somewhere exotic and far away and in the middle of nowhere. But then I think about the effort it would take to book a flight and a hotel, etc., and I just end up staycationing.

Literary novelists who have a strong handle on plot are often characterized as good vacation reads because they manage to transport you elsewhere, away from the petty facts of ordinary life.