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

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• Ned Beauman:

  Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagin

• Ned Beauman:

  I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to

• Ned Beauman:

  Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a

• Neel Mukherjee:

  The Naxalite revolution - an ultra-left Maoist movement - in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the

• Neel Mukherjee:

  The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the

• Neel Mukherjee:

  To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given t

• Neel Mukherjee:

  Work defines our lives and our place in the world.

• Neel Mukherjee:

  I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doin

• Neel Mukherjee:

  I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

• Neel Mukherjee:

  One writes what one can, or has to, write.