Adults Quote by Richard Dawkins

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 to do…

— Arvind Ethan David

Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who…

— Douglas Adams

“Children's literature as a literary aberration or at best a minor amusement is a notion held most strongly by people who read the fewest…

— Lloyd Alexander

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

— Diane Johnson

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

I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I feel like…

— Lauren Groff

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

— Simon Van Booy

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

— Jess Walter

He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be…

— Katherine Paterson

“But irony deepens a person, helps them mature. It's the entrance to salvation on a higher plane, to a place where you can find…

— Haruki Murakami

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

— Edna O'Brien