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
firsts pages novel
I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
adult albums best record
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.
old-things chance increase
Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.
dream sleep men
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.
home tunnels want
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.
frustration gout threatening
So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.
jobs day-jobs time-of-day
I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.
soldier good-soldiers
I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
kissing air
I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.
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.
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.
book home airports
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.
book cat writing
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.
thinking talking dynamics
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.