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Ned Beauman Quotes

British - Novelist | -

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.

Home Time Book Feel You Way

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.

Snow Science Time Growing Up Book

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

Good Soldier Again Read Every Often

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

Time Day Job Read Any Day Job

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.

Funny Writing Surroundings Hard Joke

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.

Great Time Me Start Advice You

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.

Good Power Think Talking Anything

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.

Find Mood Write Right Days Anything

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

Love Kiss Learn Air Would How

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

First Started Novel Since Pages

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.

Me Writing Stand Important Nothing

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.

Writing World Book Way Always Cat

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