Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Skim. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Skim Quotes And Sayings by 92 Authors including Samuel Pepys,Nick Hornby,Mary J. Williams,Missy Jane,Jim Trelease for you to enjoy and share.

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I know not how to abstain from reading.
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I'm a writer. Life is supposed to pass me by, while I watch it.
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I prefer doing over watching.
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Make reading a guilty pleasure...
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The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.
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Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer.
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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I have to watch out for being lazy.
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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
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How to start new novel: stare at blank doc, get coffee, stare, check facebook, stare, crack knuckles, stare, tweet, you get the idea...
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I read (and copied into my Interesting Things I Have Heard notebook)
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It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I read so slowly that I am always on the smart book three years after everyone else has finished.
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On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation. If it were eating it would be gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.
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In your house, do you use the term "scanning" when you refer to skimming through posts and texts and reserve the word "reading" for ONLY longer articles and books? Doing so may sound picky, but it promotes awareness.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Read, whilst you arm you; arm you, whilst you read.
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I once caught a bid, I never hit skid,
Never date a girl if the girl got a kid.
Nahhh ... papa's got a brand new bag
And I never hit skinz once they sag.
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Killing time is not an easy job
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Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.
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Sit in the corner, read.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.
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Make time to read.
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I read and write.
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
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What we do with our free time is none of your business. Now, why don't you shuffle off to Parffet. I saw him heading toward the latrines. He'll need you to wipe his ass soon. It's the one skill you're most suited for. - Ari, pg. 188.
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The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
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reading is not something you have to do it should be some thing you want to do
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Reading is good, action is better.
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To read is human, to review is divine.
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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I know nothing, so I study.
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Is reading a sport?
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I don't study; I create.
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Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.
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So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.
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I'm not good at multitasking.
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learn: v.t. to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, practice, or experience - to commit to memory - to come to know or be aware of. Obviously,
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reading - simply reading through books or
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Writing is busy idleness.
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Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.
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Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
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T h e C o n t e x t Anyone who wishes to master an activity must first understand its tools and rules
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As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
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I'm incredibly lazy!
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I'm not lazy, simply adept at leisure
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Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.
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Do less; observe more; enjoy most.
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
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I have to learn to knit.
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It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
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You're doing this to learn. To get skill, and to master it.
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Practice makes perfect.
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Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
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Devote yourself to reading.
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skate across the icy sea of oilcloth between me and the bookcase. I kneel up in bed and put on Rob's coat. Its thick, stiff wool is becoming supple again from the heat of my body night after night. I put the sleeve to my face and
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If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write.
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I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly,
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Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it.
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Write or perish in the banality of mediocrity!
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The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.
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Concentrate on your task.
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Why just read the writing? Write the reading!
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Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.
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You can't write if you don't read.
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Reading is a pleasurable paradise.
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I reads every chance I can gets.
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I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.
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Do not to look at what you are seeing, do not look at the visible work
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Got plans for the rest of the day ?"
"No plans," I whispered. Test drive your mattress? Let me pretend to be a Skittle and you can taste my rainbow? Fifty Shades me? Please ! Oh, holy horror, I'm freaking losing it.
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Reading is an apprenticeship to writing
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Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink ...
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You all know watching, so there is no question of learning it. It is just a question of changing the object of watching.
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One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.
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Don't neglect or ignore every second that passes
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Life is short. Don't be lazy.
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To become a 'good reader' one must give oneself over to a regime of concentrated pleasure. One does not set out to read a book a day (there is no necessary pleasure in that) but may spend two or three years on one book [. . .], read only portions of another, devour a third at a single sitting.
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how can you read books?
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Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat.
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Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
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Don't learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
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People who turn pages with licked fingers are as bad as those who wipe their noses on the able linen
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What you read when you don't have to ...
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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
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Live to read.
Read for life.
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Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
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There are several short intervals during the day, between studies and pleasures: instead of sitting idle and yawning, in those intervals, take up any book, though ever so trifling a one, even down to a jest-book; it is still better than doing nothing.
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Learn by practice.
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You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.
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Read.
Travel.
Read.
Ask.
Read.
Learn.
Read.
Connect.
Read.
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I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.
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Practice makes legibility!
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The rhythm of researching and querying holds all the fascination, endorphins, and residual scarring of picking a scab. It's a habit I easily fall into but without more than surface level ambition driving it can turn into a haphazard, oozing mess.
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Don't do anything that isn't play
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Real readers re-read good books.