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Ned Beauman Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t have a day job, so I read any time of day Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing Picture Quote #1

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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 Beauman Quotes) 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 Quotes) I don’t have a day job, so I read any time of day (Ned Beauman Quotes) 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 (Ned Beauman Quotes) I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since (Ned Beauman Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing (Ned Beauman Quotes)