Quotes by Skimming You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface. Andy Gilbert skimming big-fish courage The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface. Paul Auster skimming stories thinking in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore. Susan Mitchell skimming recalls fiction