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You Quotes by Iain Banks
- 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…
- 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…
- I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
- 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.
- In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
- Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide