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 BeaumanStatistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.
Ned BeaumanI started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
Ned Beauman