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Ned Beauman
British
Novelist
Always
Book
Me
Nothing
Time
Writing
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Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.
Ned Beauman
Time
Science
Book
Long
Long Time
Nothing
Teenager
William
Gibson
Must
Favourite
About
Until
Read
Science Fiction
Still
Up
Times
Snow
Fiction
Loved
Crash
Which
Growing
Growing Up
Dozen
I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.
Ned Beauman
Good
Every
Soldier
Good Soldier
Read
Ford
Often
Again
I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.
Ned Beauman
Time
Day
Job
Day Job
Read
Any
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.
Ned Beauman
Funny
Writing
Joke
Some
Like
Match
Surroundings
Quite
Little
Hard
Level
Tone
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.
Ned Beauman
Good
Power
Holding
Think
Onstage
Talking
Court
Fiction
Anything
Dynamics
Which
Pub
Reasonably
Actually
I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.
Ned Beauman
Love
Kiss
Air
Would
Learn
How
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.
Ned Beauman
Me
Writing
Important
Nothing
Tremendously
Books
Plot
At Least One
Without
Least
Where
Happens
Stand
Novel
Ever
Imagine
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.
Ned Beauman
Book
Writing
World
Mysteries
Resort
Way
Would
One-Way
About
Determined
Cat
Had
Force
Another
Always
Who
Even
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