Writer Quotes by Iain Banks

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

“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.”

— Iain Banks

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

— Iain Banks

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

— Iain Banks

“The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against…

— Iain Banks

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest…

— Iain Banks

“We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories...it's no small achievement.”

— Iain Banks

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get…

— Iain Banks

“Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a…

— Iain Banks

If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would…

— Iain Banks

“He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full stop, were:…

— Iain Banks

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

— Iain Banks

“All reality is a game.”

— Iain Banks

There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of…

— Iain Banks

Escape is a consumer goods like another

— Iain Banks