Frank Skinner > Quotes

“Cider was my drink because I liked the taste and it made me stupid.”
― Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner

“Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and impressionable, I think I infected them with my pun virus. They grew to enjoy puns, think puns, just as much as me. The problem is people don't really like puns any more, so I worry I've rendered the poor fuckers virtually unemployable.”
― Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner on the Road

“I walked back into the bedroom and, after all that, I actually was surprised. She lay on the bed, her hands nonchalantly behind her head, with the banana between her legs. Only half of it was alfresco. It was if we'd had sex and then, before heading for the bathroom, I'd bookmarked her vagina so as not to lose my place.”
― Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner on the Road

“That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from the place beyond intention. It just falls from them like windfall fruit.”
― Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry

“That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from the place beyond intention.”
― Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry

“Most single women over thirty are as rough as old arseholes.”
― Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner on the Road

“We may not know how the lines of our life are going to end, but at least we can predict what they'll sound like.”
― Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry

“That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from a place beyond intention.”
― Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry