Iain Banks Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Writing, Character

  "Iain Banks: Even at my age I still have something to prove". Interview With Maxton Walker, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2009.

• I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Home, School

  Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2008.

• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Usual, Film

• 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 film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Long, People

• Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".

  Iain Banks

  Book, Fairy Stories, Giants

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Interview with Michael Parsons, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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

  Iain Banks

  Book, Character

• Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Air, Self

• I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Writing, Trying

• I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Years, Drawing

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