"Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways……" — Iain Banks
"Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities."
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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 Alternative Quotes
This quote is filed under Alternative Quotes,
one of 736 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
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The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax,…
— Michele Bachmann
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In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because…
— Gerry Adams
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You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy.
— Lewis Black
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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good…
— Tom Brokaw
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Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and…
— Jerome Bruner
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
— George H. W. Bush
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The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
— George W. Bush
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
— Maurice Chevalier
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You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down -…
— Chris Christie
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best…
— Winston Churchill
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