Best Iain Banks Quotes
- I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely. Child
- In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed. Agreed
- Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them. Character
- Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so. Animal
- There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun. Action
- 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… Been
- 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… Accidentally
- 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… Able
- 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… Book
- 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… Change
- 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,… Always Loved
- 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… Computer
- Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically… All
- Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a… Allow
- You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and… Action
- Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant. Actually Meant
- There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it. Adding
- Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. Anarchist
- Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… Action
- After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink. Definitely
- I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way… Alcohol
- Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It… Age
- It was the day my grandmother exploded. Day
- I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism. Catechism
- People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to… Always Sorry