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. Ned Beauman More Quotes by Ned Beauman More Quotes From Ned Beauman You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little 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 increase chance When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas. Ned Beauman trouble writing I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick. Ned Beauman i-hate sick hate I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own. Ned Beauman avoiding novel 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. Ned Beauman mystery real reason I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which, although incomplete, probably contains enough material for several novels by a quieter kind of writer. And I try to get my arms around that material and see where it takes me. Ned Beauman kind enough trying Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking. Ned Beauman chance president 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. Ned Beauman decision people thinking 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. Ned Beauman judge best just way
