Books Quotes by Douglas Adams

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.

— Douglas Adams

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

— Douglas Adams

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

— Douglas Adams

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

— Douglas Adams

“The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them”

— Douglas Adams

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

— Douglas Adams

“great book stands the test of time unlike my good self….”

— Douglas Adams

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“The Book: Curiously the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias, as it fell, was, 'Oh no,…

— Douglas Adams

“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

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

Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV…

— Douglas Adams

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

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

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience.…

— Douglas Adams

“Did you know, young lady," said Watkin to her, "that the Book of Revelation was written on Patmos? It was indeed. By…

— Douglas Adams

“The room was much as he had left it, festeringly untidy, though the effect was muted a little by a thick layer…

— Douglas Adams

“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

“Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one – more popular than the Celestial Home…

— Douglas Adams

Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the…

— Douglas Adams

“Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word…

— Douglas Adams