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

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

Ned Beauman quotes: Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

Ned Beauman quotes: 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.

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

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

Ned Beauman quotes: So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

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.

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

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

Ned Beauman quotes: I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

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

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.

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: 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.

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 quotes: You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a littledarkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.

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 quotes: She had so many freckles that Erskine wondered if she might have stolen some from other children.

She had so many freckles that Erskine wondered if she might have stolen some from other children.

Ned Beauman quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 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.

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: accidents, like women, allude

accidents, like women, allude