Douglas Adams Quotes About Books

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

  Douglas Adams

  Book, Writing, Awful

• Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.

  Douglas Adams

  Book, Cereal, Ideas

  "Douglas Adams" by Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. January 28, 1998.

• We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

  Douglas Adams

  Book, Pennies, Computer

  Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

• Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

  Douglas Adams

  Lying, Book, Bed

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2005). “The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be”, p.38, Crown Archetype

• Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

  Douglas Adams

  Book, Reading, Finals

  Douglas Adams, John Lloyd (2013). “The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

• It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Book, Action

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

• Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?

  Douglas Adams

  Book, Doe, Cinema

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future" (BBC Radio 4) with Douglas Adams, 2001.

• The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!

  Douglas Adams

  Libro, Escritura, Clase

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