"I just come up with the stories and……" — Iain Banks
"I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on."
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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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I never had any thought the whole week. I figured my caddie [Jerry Beard] knew the course a lot better…
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I've had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go…
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has…
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the…
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