"Half the fun of writing a novel is……" — Iain Banks
"Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant."
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85 Quotes by Iain Banks
Iain Banks has 85 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with…
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there…
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as…
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write.…
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Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you…
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You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end…
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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is…
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines…
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More Actually Meant Quotes
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What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public…
— Michael Moorcock
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Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant…
— John Mellencamp
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I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're…
— Neil Gaiman
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People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the…
— Terry Pratchett
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I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly. There's someone out there who will one day…
— Perry Moore
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Liz, I like you very much," he says. "Oh," she says, "I like you very much, too!" Owen is not…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but…
— Anthony Horowitz
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The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I…
— Bill Johnson
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The only way to truly knows those who really care is being yourself always, cuz people don't hold back too…
— Blaze Olermiday
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'These people who contributed to who I am, they are with me wherever I go and as history gets re-written…
— Andrew Guzaldo
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For a few minutes you made me feel as though I actually meant something to someone.
— CANDY
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He was the only one I actually trusted. still is. but I cant tell him anything anymore. Because hes gone.…
— Unknown Author
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