The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
“Loeser's favourite book in Blimk's shop, where he spent most of his afternoons, was still Dames! And how to Lay them. He… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
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… — Ned Beauman Copy Share
Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing. — Ned Beauman Copy Share
“That was how Sinner got his first taste of anything other than the froth on his father's ale. It made you grimace, but if… — Ned Beauman Copy Share
Politicians often like to suggest that their policies come about through objective thinking, but if you look at British fascists, for example, what you… — Ned Beauman Copy Share
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… — Ned Beauman Copy Share
Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I… — Ned Beauman Copy Share
“What does it do?" said Loeser. "You feel as if you're being sucked down this fathomless, gloomy tunnel. Or to put it another way,… — Ned Beauman Copy Share
Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings.… — Ned Beauman Copy Share
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… — Ned Beauman Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I love sentences. I love characters. But most of all, perhaps, I love to work on plot, and that may be where my natural… — Ned Beauman Copy Share
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… — Ned Beauman Copy Share
“The Nazis, he had written in his latest, "are wedded to a sort of aesthetico-moral fallacy, which is that if a man has blond… — Ned Beauman Copy Share
