Skip – Quotes

If beginnings terrify you,

If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don’t like writing them, or if they bore you, skip ’em. Gail Carson Levine

Once you start deliberately offering thought, then you can never offer enough action to keep up with the thought. Once you access the Energy that creates worlds, a huge vortex comes into place, and there’s just not enough action for you to keep up with that. And so, what you have to do is visualize … Read more

I’m going to be

I’m going to be happy. I’m going to skip. I’m going to be glad. I’m going to be easy. I’m going to count my blessings. I’m going to look for reasons to feel good. I’m going to dig up positive things from the past. I’m going to look for positive things where I stand. I’m … Read more

What all the ads

What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, your choice of Scotch in bars – you would meet a beautiful powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every … Read more

Skip the boring parts.

Skip the boring parts. Elmore Leonard

I try to leave

I try to leave out the parts readers skip. Elmore Leonard

Try not to write

Try not to write the parts that people skip. Elmore Leonard

My most important piece

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip. Elmore Leonard

In fact, since the

In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn’t love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What’s left of us anyway. We are corpses. At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. … Read more

Skip your brain and

Skip your brain and go right to the gut. Elizabeth Streb