Writing Quotes by Douglas Adams

I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

— Douglas Adams

After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

— Douglas Adams

I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

— Douglas Adams

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

Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not…

— Douglas Adams

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

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

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 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

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

“I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths - and a degree in English. I worried a lot about…

— Douglas Adams

In the old days, writers used to sit in front of a typewriter and stare out of the window. Nowadays, because of…

— Douglas Adams

You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would…

— Douglas Adams

The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked.…

— Douglas Adams

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

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

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what…

— Douglas Adams

Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be…

— Douglas Adams

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

“GENERAL NOTE TO MYSELF - Douglas Adams Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry,…

— Douglas Adams

“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

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