"I wouldn't like to be a character in…" — Iain Banks

"I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!"

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85 Quotes by Iain Banks

Iain Banks has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog,…
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with…
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there…
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as…
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write.…
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you…
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end…
Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is…
Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
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 Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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