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Ned Beauman is a British novelist and journalist. He is the son of Persephone Books' founder Nicola Beauman. In addition to novels he has also contributed journalism and literary criticism to The Guardian, The White Review, The London Review of Books and Dazed & Confused.

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

Firsts, Novel, Pages, Produced

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.

Days, Excuse, Finicky, Mood, Writing

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

Frustration, Gangrene, Gout, Testicular, Threatening

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

Avoiding, Novel, Thing, Working, Writers

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.

Anyway, Book, Couple, Know, Nobody, Writing

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

Aside, Historical, Novel, Novels, Romance

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.

Character, Hard, Lying, Perhaps, Thinking, Work

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.

Fresh, Mystery, Real, Reason, Solution

The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.

Excites, Explore, Novel, Reason, Start

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

Ford, Good Soldiers, Madox, Read, Soldier

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

Day, Day Jobs, Job, Jobs, Time, Time Of Day

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.

Advice, Earplugs, Kind, Lame, Start, Turned

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.

Dream, Man, Men, Needs, Right, Sleep

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

Chance, Increase, Like, Naming, Old Things

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.

Book, Cat, Solves, Tabby, Writing

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.

Decision, Decisions, Deep, People, See, Thinking

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.

Levels, Littles, Match, Tone, Writing

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.

Fiction, Holding, Pub, Talking, Think, Thinking

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.

Book, Books, Happens, Important, Writing

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.

Author, Basically, Fun, Thing, Thinking, Writing

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