Writing Quotes by Ned Beauman

Ned Beauman

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.

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Ned Beauman

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.

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Ned Beauman

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.

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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.

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Important

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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.

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Ned Beauman

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.

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Ned Beauman

When I’m writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

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Writing Quotes by Ned Beauman

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’m very finicky about when I’m in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

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.

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.

When I’m writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

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