Ned Beauman famous quotes

04-17-2025

You couldnâ€™t truly love anything if you didnâ€™t hate at least something. Indeed, perhaps you couldnâ€™t truly love anything if you didnâ€™t hate almost everything.
-- Ned Beauman

#Hate
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.
-- Ned Beauman

#Growing Up #Teenager #Book
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.
-- Ned Beauman

#Advice #Lame #Kind
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

#Book #Writing #Important
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.
-- Ned Beauman

#Thinking #Talking #Dynamics
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.
-- Ned Beauman

#Book #Cat #Writing
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.
-- Ned Beauman

#Book #Home #Airports
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

#Writing #Levels #Littles
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

#Writing #Excuse #Mood
I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.
-- Ned Beauman

#Kissing #Air
I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
-- Ned Beauman

#Firsts #Pages #Novel
I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
-- Ned Beauman

#Soldier
I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.
-- Ned Beauman

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

#Frustration #Gout #Threatening
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

#Home #Tunnels #Want
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

#Dream #Sleep #Men
Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.
-- Ned Beauman

#Old Things #Chance #Increase

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