You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“To the people who insist they really do have a great idea but they just can't write, I'd say that given some… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along,… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“We're not in prison, we're not junkies and we're not Young Tories...it's no small achievement.” — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
