“The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you. — 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 love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.’ Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to… — 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
It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV… — 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
“You can’t throw us into space,” yelled Ford, “we’re trying to write a book.” “Resistance is useless!” shouted the Vogon guard back… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Did you know, young lady," said Watkin to her, "that the Book of Revelation was written on Patmos? It was indeed. By… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The room was much as he had left it, festeringly untidy, though the effect was muted a little by a thick layer… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one – more popular than the Celestial Home… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Q: Do you feel concerned that after all this work, people won't treat [Starship Titanic] with the gravity of, say, a movie… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Book: Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, 'Oh no,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
"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 Image
“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 Image