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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
Iain Banks
Time
,
Smart
,
Thought
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
Iain Banks
Saying
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Writing
,
Worth
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Iain Banks
Science
,
Reading
,
Culture
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks
Long
,
Book
,
Film
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks
Best
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Books
,
Worst
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Iain Banks
Book
,
Dead
,
Guilty
Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
Iain Banks
Big
,
Few
,
Gone
I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.
Iain Banks
Life
,
Down
,
Trying
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Iain Banks
Book
,
Writing
,
Trying
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
Iain Banks
Experience
,
Book
,
Enjoy
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
Iain Banks
Great
,
Thinking
,
Write
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
Iain Banks
Life
,
Love
,
Writing
I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
Iain Banks
School
,
Thought
,
Remember
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
Iain Banks
Hard
,
Understand
,
Find
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
Iain Banks
Book
,
Old
,
Year
I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
Iain Banks
Change
,
Science
,
Technology
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
Iain Banks
Future
,
American
,
Looking
I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.
Iain Banks
Serve
I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
Iain Banks
Character
,
Books
I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
Iain Banks
Happy
,
Lonely
,
Child
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
Iain Banks
Great
,
Nothing
,
Fact
I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.
Iain Banks
Live
,
Big
,
Honest
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
Iain Banks
Politics
,
Disagree
,
Agreed
In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
Iain Banks
Work
,
Means
,
Week
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks
Love
,
Great
,
Fall
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Biography
Nationality:
Scottish
Type:
Writer
Born:
February 16
, 1954
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