Ned Beauman quotes
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“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 everything.”
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“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 BeaumanSource : "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.
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“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.”
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“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 BeaumanSource : "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.
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“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.”
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“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 BeaumanSource : "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.
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“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 BeaumanSource : "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.
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“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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“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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“I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.”
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“I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.”
-- Ned BeaumanSource : "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.
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“I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.”
-- Ned BeaumanSource : "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.
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“I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.”
-- Ned BeaumanSource : "Ned Beauman: 'What sticks in my mind is praise from the wrong people'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2012.
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“So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.”
-- Ned BeaumanSource : "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.
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“If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.”
-- Ned BeaumanSource : "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.
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“You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.”
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“Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.”
-- Ned BeaumanSource : "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.
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