Andy Weir Quotes

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.

I wrote the worst novel ever.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

I go to the gym in a baseball cap, sweats and then run into a boy I like. It happens - so what?

Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing.

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

I think it's important never to look yourself up on Wikipedia. I think the temptation to correct any interesting factual errors would be too much.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.

One time I laughed so hard, I just had to go and change my pantyhose. I lost it. Lost it. At least it wasn't onstage.

If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I'm going to say it.

Because of Twitter, I think people know most every single thing about me. I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people about me.

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.