Skip Quotes

235 quotes by 216 authors

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink. — A. S. Byatt
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible… — John Ruskin
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right… — Daniel Pennac
CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and… — Bill Watterson
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface:… — Roland Barthes
If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip… — Walter Mosley
Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line… — William Goldman
A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the… — David Sedaris
Skip the boring parts. — Elmore Leonard
Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs. — Terry Pratchett
Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to… — Scott Westerfeld
Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never… — Banana Yoshimoto
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. — Alexander Hamilton
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it. — Timothy Zahn
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is… — Alan Lightman
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day… — Annie Dillard
Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish… — James M. Barrie
Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt," said Malfoy coolly. It was Harry's turn to laugh. "Yeah, right!" he said. "I will… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be… — Orson Scott Card

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