Ned Beauman
Ned Beauman
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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Ned Beauman quotes about
advice lame kind
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.
writing levels littles
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.
writing excuse mood
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.
soldier good-soldiers
I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
frustration gout threatening
So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.
old-things chance increase
Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.