Iain Banks Quotes

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.
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.
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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!
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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.
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Iain Banks
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16 February, 1954
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09 June, 2013
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