Iain Banks Quotes

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• 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…
• I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
• 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!
• My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
• 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…
• 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…
• Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to…
• You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history
• Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
• I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
• Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
• 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…
• It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread…
• 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
• I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
• ...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do…
• I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
• I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
• You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

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