Books Quote by Douglas Adams Download Open image ““The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them”” — Douglas Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Humour Writing
“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. ” — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“The trouble with bookshops is that they are as bad as pubs. You start at one and then you drift to another, and before… — R.T. Campbell Copy Share Image
“I read so much, in fact, that one of my exes used to complain that I spent all my money on booze and books,… — Duke Haney Copy Share Image
“(It was also helpful that the hotel’s owner tended to turn a blind eye to room sharing. A room filled with too many guests… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine not reading. Some books, of course, are like lovers; you go to bed with them once and fall asleep immediately...But other… — Joe Bennett Copy Share Image
“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.” — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
“I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Each writer had a bedroom in the main house and a shack or “work cottage” in which to write. We all met up for… — Harlan Coben 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image