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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

I wish the camera could smell my armpits. Dude, mine smell good. — Ryan Ross

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

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

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

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