I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths - and a degree in English. I worried a lot about… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“GENERAL NOTE TO MYSELF - Douglas Adams Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I'm a writer and I'm feeling like death, as you would too if you'd just flown into Grand Rapids, Michigan at some… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered. — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
