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Book Quotes by Iain Banks
- I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
- 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…
- I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
- By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
- Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
- 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…
- 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…
- Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through…
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