Ned Beauman Quotes

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.

~ Ned Beauman

design copy

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

~ Ned Beauman

Any Day Day Job Job Read Time

design copy

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

~ Ned Beauman

Again Every Ford Good Good Soldier Often Read Soldier

design copy

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

~ Ned Beauman

First Novel Pages Produced Since Started Thousands

design copy

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.

~ Ned Beauman

About Always Another Book Cat Determined Even Force Had Mysteries One-Way Resort Way Who World Would Writing

design copy

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

~ Ned Beauman

Air How Kiss Learn Love Would

design copy

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.

~ Ned Beauman

Actually Anything Court Dynamics Fiction Good Holding Onstage Power Pub Reasonably Talking Think Which

design copy

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.

~ Ned Beauman

About Anything Days Excuse Find Mood Most Right Some Very Write

design copy

Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.

~ Ned Beauman

Adult Albums Best Best Way Collection Her His Judge Just Pub Record Record Collection Way

design copy

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

At Least One Books Ever Happens Imagine Important Least Me Nothing Novel Plot Stand Tremendously Where Without Writing

design copy

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

Funny Hard Joke Level Like Little Match Quite Some Surroundings Tone Writing

design copy

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.

~ Ned Beauman

Advice Bad Bad Time Bit Great Kind Lame Me Never Out Put Reject Somebody Start Thing Time Turned Wearing You

design copy

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

design copy

Related Books

Author Profile

Votes :

Rating :

AuthorName

Ned Beauman

Profession

Novelist

Country

View Profile

Share to your friends..

Like Us!!

Quote Fellas

Popular Topics

Attitude Death Inspirational Life Love Motivational Nature Positive