Don't Panic by Douglas Adams

Author:Douglas Adams
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2009-12-17T13:03:53+00:00

in my mind explaining to them what was going on, and they would all say, Yeah? Well so what? I don't want to get involved.' Either they didn't want to get involved or they didn't understand. "In the end, Slartibartfast had to become the character who had to get them all to get a move on, and that really wasn't in his nature either. You see, all the characters are essentially character parts. I had a lot of supporting roles and no main character."

ON WRITING HUMOUR "Writing comes easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds. "I find it ludicrously difficult. I try and avoid it if at all possible. The business of buying new pencils assumes gigantic proportions. I have four word processors and spend a lot of time wondering which one to work on. All writers, or most, say they find writing difficult, but most writers I know are surprised at how difficult I find it. "I usually get very depressed when writing. It always seems to me that writing coincides with terrible crises breaking up my life. I used to think these crises had a terrible effect on my being able to write; these days I have a very strong suspicion that it's the sitting down to write that precipitates the crises. So quite a lot of troubles tend to get worked out in the books. It's usually below the surface. It doesn't appear to tackle problems at a personal level, but it does, implicitly, even if not explicitly. "I'm not a wit. A wit says something funny on the spot. A comedy writer says something very funny two minutes later. Or in my case, two weeks later. "I don't think I could do a serious book anyway. I'm sure that jokes would start to creep in. I actually do think that comedy is a serious business: when you are working on something you have to take it absolutely seriously; you have to be passionately committed to it. But you can't maintain that if you are going to stay sane. So when I talk about it to other people I tend to be

flippant about it. I'm always so glad to have got through it, I say, It's just jokes'. It's a relief. "What I do now on many occasions is have, say, an inconsequential idea for a throwaway line that seems quite neat, then I go to huge lengths to create the context in which to throw that line away and make it appear that it was just a throwaway line, when in fact you've constructed this huge edifice off which to chuck this line. It's a really exhausting way of writing but. when it works... "Often the things that seem frivolous and whimsical are the hardest to get right. Take the opening section of Life, the Universe, and Everything, which is something I'm quite pleased with. They are stuck on prehistoric Earth, and then suddenly they

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