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I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.
Ned Beauman / Novelist
Jobs
Day Jobs
Time Of Day
Day Job
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I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.
Ned Beauman / Novelist
Air
Kissing
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I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
Ned Beauman / Novelist
Good Soldiers
Soldier
Ford
Good Soldier
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I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick.
Ned Beauman / Novelist
Hate
I Hate
Sick
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When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.
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Trouble
Writing
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I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
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Firsts
Novel
Pages
Produced
Thousands
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It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.
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Historical
Novel
Romance
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The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.
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Novel
Reason
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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.
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Excuse
Mood
Writing
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Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.
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Chance
Increase
Old Things
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I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.
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Avoiding
Novel
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So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.
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Frustration
Gout
Threatening
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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 / Novelist
Best Way
Pub
Record Collection
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Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.
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Chance
President
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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.
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Dream
Men
Sleep
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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.
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Home
Tunnels
Want
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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.
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Levels
Littles
Surroundings
Tone
Writing
Match
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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 / Novelist
Book
Important
Plot
Writing
Me Important Nothing
Where Me Important
At Least One
Tremendously
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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.
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Hate
Ifs
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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.
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Court
Dynamics
Fiction
Talking
Thinking
Holding
Onstage
Pub
Reasonably
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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.
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Book
Cat
Determined
Force
Writing
Always World Way
Mysteries
Resort
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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 would want to read a book about anyway.
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Book
Couple
Writing
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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.
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Advice
Kind
Lame
Time Great Me
Time Great Start
Bad Time
Wearing
Reject
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I love sentences. I love characters. But most of all, perhaps, I love to work on plot, and that may be where my natural gifts lie, if I have any. I like to think hard about plots in TV shows and films.
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Character
Lying
Thinking
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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.
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Home
Airports
Book
Flight
Time Home Always
Time Home Way
Airport
By The Time
Plane
Quarter
Save
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Mystery, investigation, false leads, solution - we associate that structure with genre fiction, but it exists in our real lives, too. There's no reason why literary fiction shouldn't be able to acknowledge that and make it fresh.
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Mystery
Real
Reason
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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.
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Book
Crash
Dozen
Favourite
Growing Up
Science Fiction
Snow
Teenager
Time Science Long
Science Time Long
Gibson
William
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I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which, although incomplete, probably contains enough material for several novels by a quieter kind of writer. And I try to get my arms around that material and see where it takes me.
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Enough
Kind
Trying
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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. History can sometimes be in the background, the thing which instead of rupturing your life merely irritates you by pressing itself now and then into the foreground.
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Fall
Historical
Romance
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Politicians often like to suggest that their policies come about through objective thinking, but if you look at British fascists, for example, what you see - what I see - is a group of people coming to the decisions they came to because something happened to them when they were nine-years-old, or because of some deep prejudice that formed in them subsequent to that.
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Decision
People
Thinking
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I guess the main thing I definitely don't enjoy is having a job which involves selling things. You become an author because you think you're good at writing. Not because you love to promote yourself. I enjoy some of it and I've had a really fun few years so basically I have nothing to complain about. But what I don't like is the thought that it's going to go on for the rest of my life.
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Fun
Thinking
Writing
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