Coastal Town Quotes

I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.

I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

What makes Biarritz special, as far as I'm concerned, are the fantastic coastline, the beaches - such as the Cotes des Basques - and the sea.

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

Personally, when I go to Tulum, I prefer to be near the action but not in the midst of it.

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.

When I come to Manly I just remember my childhood.

It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.

I lived for two years in Odawara, a castle town an hour outside of Tokyo, near the sea. It's a beautiful place, and I drew on my experiences there when writing 'The Lake of Dreams.'

Well, my parents live in Cambridge, Maryland.

I think that Jersey Shore is awesome. I've gone to Cape May every summer of my life.

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

I live in a cabin in Santa Cruz.

What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.

I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.

I often think of setting as an important character in my story. 'Dark Powers' takes place in Doncaster, a Maryland Eastern Shore community rich with watermen and historic atmosphere. I modeled it after a stunning little town called St. Michaels, but since a lot of bad things happen in Doncaster, I changed the name.

I grew up Dalgety Bay, in the Kingdom of Fife, in a 1970s bungalow. We moved there when I was nine and stayed for about six years.

My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean - one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth.

In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.

I adore Biarritz. I first went there in the Eighties, and my wife and I liked it so much that we ended up buying a holiday home there.

Once you've lived in Del Mar or the San Diego area, why would you want to live anyplace else? It's the neatest place, whether it's the culture or the small-town atmosphere the whole San Diego area has.

I love Asbury Park. It's like the Liverpool of America.

In my small, coastal New England town, an hour outside New York, I know many people who have dealt with cancer. I can reel off the names of at least 15 women I know, all in their 40s.