“The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.” ReasonNovel Author:Ned Beauman
“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.” TryingKindEnoughNovelIncompleteBlocked Author:Ned Beauman
“I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.” NovelAvoiding Author:Ned Beauman
“It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.” RomanceNovelHistorical Author:Ned Beauman
“I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.” FirstsNovelPages Author:Ned Beauman
“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.” WritingI CanImportantBookHappensNovelImagineMurderThings HappenPlot Author:Ned Beauman
