I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick. - Ned Beauman
I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick.
- Ned Beauman
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. - Ned Beauman
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.
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 ti… - Ned Beauman
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 ti…
I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day. - Ned Beauman
I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.
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 earplug… - Ned Beauman
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 earplug…
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. - Ned Beauman
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.
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 w… - Ned Beauman
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 w…
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 ev… - Ned Beauman
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 ev…
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 t… - Ned Beauman
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 t…
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