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I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
— Ned Beauman
Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.
— Ned Beauman
A portrait of a muscular grey-haired man with a grim, almost demented gaze and the sort of moustache that could beat you in an arm-wrestling contest.
— Ned Beauman
No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
— George Henry Lewes
Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.
— Henry Ford
I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.
— Ned Beauman
And worse, they'll trample on it, inadvertently crush it, beneath a certain mediocrity inherent in professional competence.
— William Gibson
So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.
— Ned Beauman
If you cannot solve a problem, ask someone who knows.
— Eraldo Banovac
Each point feels like the blow from a hammer, smashing me down to size.
— Victoria Aveyard
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
I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.
— Ned Beauman
Why talk to a person if you had nothing in common with them? What would that accomplish, other than a painfully stunted conversation?
— L. H. Cosway
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
Racism is a disease of white people
— Albert Einstein
Loeser found it hard to believe that God was forever slapping the face of the universe like a policeman trying to stop a drunk from falling asleep.
— Ned Beauman
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
accidents, like women, allude
— Ned Beauman
She had so many freckles that Erskine wondered if she might have stolen some from other children.
— Ned Beauman
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. — Ned Beauman
darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream. — Ned Beauman
To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.
— George Herbert
One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.
— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.
— Robert Ludlum
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 Beauman
There's no better investment than your cleavage." Charlotte smirked. "I believe they teach that in business school.
— Curtis Sittenfeld