Quotes by Ned Beauman

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 the way through and it doesn’t feel so unmanageable any more.

Airports

Book

Home

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

Day Jobs

Jobs

Time Of Day

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

Thinking

Writing

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

Hate

I Hate

Sick

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.

Character

Lying

Thinking

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.

Enough

Kind

Trying

I read ‘The Good Soldier’ by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

Good Soldiers

Soldier

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

Firsts

Novel

Pages

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

Cat

Writing

I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

Air

Kissing

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Air

Airports

Avoiding

Book

Cat

Chance

Character

Couple

Day Jobs

Decision

Dream

Enough

Excuse

Fall

Fiction

Firsts

Frustration

Fun

Good Soldiers

Gout

Growing Up

Hate

Historical

Home

I Hate

Ifs

Important

Increase

Jobs

Kind

Kissing

Lame

Levels

Littles

Lying

Men

Mood

Mystery

Novel

Old Things

Pages

People

President

Real

Reason

Romance

Sick

Sleep

Soldier

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Quotes by Ned Beauman

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 the way through and it doesn’t feel so unmanageable any more.

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

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

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.

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.

I read ‘The Good Soldier’ by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

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.

I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

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