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

Book Quotes

You can’t dodge your responsibilities by saying they don’t exist!

Responsibility Quotes

Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

Humility Quotes

A beach house isn’t just real estate. It’s a state of mind.

Real Quotes

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.

Space Quotes

There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler’s mind.

Stories Quotes

I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

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?

Book Quotes

Very strange people, physicists – in my experience the ones who aren’t dead are in some way very ill.

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I’m thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don’t. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

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!

Book Quotes

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

The light was only just visible – except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it’s throat.

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they’d settled on.

When the idea comes, I often can’t remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker’s. It’s almost as if someone else wrote it.

This man is the bee’s knees, Arthur, he is the wasp’s nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.

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.

Book Quotes

I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed.

It was his subconscious which told him this – that infuriating part of a person’s brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

He actually caught himself saying things like “Yippee,” as he pranced ridiculously round the house.

Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

I’m so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

Gordon Way’s astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

Mc Donalds he thought. There’s no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.

The little waiter’s eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

So the hours are pretty good then?? he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,? he said, ’but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it’s going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

I didn’t notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.

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.

Book Quotes

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

He sniggered. He didn’t like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

He didn’t know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.

Fun Quotes

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn’t lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you’ve seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.

I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it’s less good than what I do, there’s no point in reading it, if it’s better than what I do it makes me depressed.

Reading Quotes

If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg Ron stole Meggy’s heart away and I got Sidney’s leg.

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you’re innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police – who already think you’re guilty – will find it for you.

I don’t say that I don’t believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.