Adams has done a bit of everything, from radio to television to designing computer games. Not all of them worked out. These are lifes little learning experiences, he said. You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, You know that thing you just did? Dont do that. At the end of all this being-determined-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades, I think Im better off just sitting down and putting a hundred thousand words in a cunning order. Adams writes slowly and painfully. People assume you sit in a room, looking pensive and writing great thoughts, he said. But you mostly sit in a room looking panic-stricken and hoping they havent put a guard on the door yet.
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About Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams was a 20th-century English writer and humorist. Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, humorist, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy evolved into a "trilogy" of six books which sold more than 14 million copies in his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Work — The value of effort, discipline, and meaningful labour