I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly past.' Douglas Adams” — Tima Maria Lacoba Copy Share Image
“What are you, beyond the collection of the things you've done, said and thought? Happily, much comfort is to be found in… — Belle Dejour Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
“Human beings, who are almost unique [among animals] in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. —Douglas Adams, The… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
“Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein,… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very… — Jody Lynn Nye Copy Share Image
“It would not be completely unreasonable to suggest that if J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown, and Dean Koontz were to get together in… — Mark Sheldon 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 it crucial to recognize that you can't straightforwardly "adapt" Douglas Adams. Douglas's genius was uniquely his own. What I've tried… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing we try to teach our students when they first arrive at the University of Manchester, ready to… — Brian Cox Jeff Forshaw Copy Share Image
“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way… — Brian Patrick Eha Copy Share Image
“You are aware that what they do, they do for the world, and the results are, of course, magnificent. But when you… — Stephen Fry 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
“I don’t ever remember being afraid of “oldness”. There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've seen [Lalla Ward] episodes of "Doctor Who." They're good, at least partly because the scripts were written by Douglas Adams. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Douglas Adams called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. While reading the book, he came across a passage which revealed to the… — Andrew Knight Copy Share Image
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.… — Sophia Amoruso 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
Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) . — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
David Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . ‘page-turner’ is an understatement. — Don Coscarelli Copy Share Image
“Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks.… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a… — Martin Kleppmann Copy Share Image
I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
![“I think Douglas [Douglas Adams] was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.” quote by Lalla Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d39/lalla-ward-33910_clever_i-think-douglas-douglas-adams-was-a-real_996442.jpg)
![“Human beings, who are almost unique [among animals] in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” — Douglas Adams” quote by Scott Berkun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b7c/scott-berkun-12409_ability-to-learn_human-beings-who-are-almost-unique-among_74918.jpg)
![“I've seen [Lalla Ward] episodes of "Doctor Who." They're good, at least partly because the scripts were written by Douglas Adams.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/995/richard-dawkins-115_doctor-who_i-ve-seen-lalla-ward-episodes-of-doctor_3088892.jpg)
![“To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas Adams] mimed a wonderfully funny imitation of a puddle of water, fitting itself snugly into a depression in the ground, the depression uncannily being…” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a6f/richard-dawkins-115_conceit_to-illustrate-the-vain-conceit-that-the_2176499.jpg)
