When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
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Writing, Experience, Creativity, Career, Aging
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“I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.” Douglas Adams
Writing, Challenges, Persistence, Self-improvement, Creativity
Douglas Adams Writing, Challenges, Persistence, Self-improvement, Creativity“Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.” Douglas Adams
Dark Humor, Death, Cars, Alcohol, Corporate Succession
Douglas Adams Dark Humor, Death, Cars, Alcohol, Corporate Succession“The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.” Douglas Adams
Exaggeration, Thought Process, Humor, Impossibility, Mental State
Douglas Adams Exaggeration, Thought Process, Humor, Impossibility, Mental State“What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Virtual Reality, Perception, Information, Understanding
Douglas Adams Technology, Virtual Reality, Perception, Information, Understanding“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” Douglas Adams
Certainty, Doubt, Humor, Demands, Paradox
Douglas Adams Certainty, Doubt, Humor, Demands, Paradox“Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.” Douglas Adams
Loneliness, Robots, Depression, Conversation, Humor
Douglas Adams Loneliness, Robots, Depression, Conversation, Humor“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” Douglas Adams
Physics, Humor, Information, Bad News, Speed
Douglas Adams Physics, Humor, Information, Bad News, Speed“The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked it, would have found it not sunny enough, and insufficiently full of mirrors.” Douglas Adams
Description, Humor, Historical Reference, Aesthetics, Criticism
Douglas Adams Description, Humor, Historical Reference, Aesthetics, Criticism“Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.” Douglas Adams
Paradox, Time, Space, Memory, Perception
Douglas Adams Paradox, Time, Space, Memory, Perception“Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.” Douglas Adams
Casting, Self-perception, Humor, Film, Hypothetical
Douglas Adams Casting, Self-perception, Humor, Film, Hypothetical“The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.” Douglas Adams
Technology, Quality, Market Share, Perspective, Brand Loyalty
Douglas Adams Technology, Quality, Market Share, Perspective, Brand Loyalty“The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it.” Douglas Adams
Creativity, Writing, Humor, Inspiration, Frustration
Douglas Adams Creativity, Writing, Humor, Inspiration, Frustration“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.” Douglas Adams
Subconscious, Mind, Psychology, Humor, Inner Thoughts
Douglas Adams Subconscious, Mind, Psychology, Humor, Inner Thoughts“We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.” Douglas Adams
Perception, Reality, Senses, Cognition, Philosophy
Douglas Adams Perception, Reality, Senses, Cognition, Philosophy“I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.” Douglas Adams
Digital Media, Creativity, Innovation, Technology, Originality
Douglas Adams Digital Media, Creativity, Innovation, Technology, Originality“I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.” Douglas Adams
Self-doubt, Confidence, Stubbornness, Belief, Personal Struggles
Douglas Adams Self-doubt, Confidence, Stubbornness, Belief, Personal Struggles“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.” Douglas Adams
Logic, Humor, Deduction, Observation, Classification
Douglas Adams Logic, Humor, Deduction, Observation, Classification“How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.” Douglas Adams
Memory, Reality, Perception, Time, Philosophy
Douglas Adams Memory, Reality, Perception, Time, Philosophy