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  • I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

    "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.
  • There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.

    Advice   Lame   Kind  
  • I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

    Kissing   Air  
  • When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

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  • I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick.

    Hate   Sick   I Hate  
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  • Mystery, investigation, false leads, solution - we associate that structure with genre fiction, but it exists in our real lives, too. There's no reason why literary fiction shouldn't be able to acknowledge that and make it fresh.

    Real   Mystery   Reason  
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  • I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.

  • I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

    "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.
  • Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings. History can sometimes be in the background, the thing which instead of rupturing your life merely irritates you by pressing itself now and then into the foreground.

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  • I love sentences. I love characters. But most of all, perhaps, I love to work on plot, and that may be where my natural gifts lie, if I have any. I like to think hard about plots in TV shows and films.

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  • I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.

    Book   Writing   Cat  
    "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.
  • So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

    "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.
  • You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.

    Dream   Sleep   Men  
  • You couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate at least something. Indeed, perhaps you couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate almost everything.

    Hate   Ifs  
    "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.
  • I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

    Writing   Excuse   Mood  
  • The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.

    Reason   Novel  
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  • Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

    "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.
  • I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

    Pages   Firsts   Novel  
    "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.
  • I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

    Novel   Avoiding  
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  • Politicians often like to suggest that their policies come about through objective thinking, but if you look at British fascists, for example, what you see - what I see - is a group of people coming to the decisions they came to because something happened to them when they were nine-years-old, or because of some deep prejudice that formed in them subsequent to that.

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  • I guess the main thing I definitely don't enjoy is having a job which involves selling things. You become an author because you think you're good at writing. Not because you love to promote yourself. I enjoy some of it and I've had a really fun few years so basically I have nothing to complain about. But what I don't like is the thought that it's going to go on for the rest of my life.

    Fun   Writing   Thinking  
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  • If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.

    Home   Tunnels   Want  
    "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.
  • The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

  • There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody would want to read a book about anyway.

    Couple   Book   Writing  
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  • Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.

    "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.
  • I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.

    Book   Home   Airports  
    "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.
  • Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.

    "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.
  • I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which, although incomplete, probably contains enough material for several novels by a quieter kind of writer. And I try to get my arms around that material and see where it takes me.

    Trying   Kind   Enough  
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  • It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

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  • Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.

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