Audience Quote by Douglas Adams

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…

— Lalla Ward

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be…

— Jane Austen

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet,…

— Jane Austen

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

— Adrianne Palicki

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write…

— Jose Saramago

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.

— Erin Morgenstern

“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as…

— Jane Austen

My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

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

— Douglas Adams

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.”

— Adam Langer

“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older,…

— Gustave Flaubert