36 Quotes by Ned Beauman

I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.