Iain Banks Quotes - Page 4

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• I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, Blade Runner, Looks

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

  Iain Banks

  Book, Usual, Film

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• Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

  Iain Banks

  Immediacy, Scholar

  Iain Banks (2002). “Look to Windward”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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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 it at all!

  Iain Banks

  Awards, Facts, Believer

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• I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way people who are normally quite sensible dissolve into gibbering, rude, opinionated and bombastic idiots once the alcohol molecules in their bloom-stream outnumber the neutrons, or whatever. Luckily, one only notices this if one stays sober oneself, so the solution is as pleasant (at the time, at least) as it is obvious.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, People, Drunk

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• Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

  Iain Banks

  Years, Waking Life, Ordinary

  Iain Banks (1986). “The bridge”

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• I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

  Iain Banks

  Light, Years, Towns

  Iain M. Banks (2008). “Use Of Weapons”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• Escape is a consumer goods like another

  Iain Banks

  Goods, Consumers

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• It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting - corruption and favoritism, mostly- endemic to the system.

  Iain Banks

  Looks, Use, Empires

  "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 1, p. 91), 1988.

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• Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear

  Iain Banks

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

  Iain Banks

  Important, Fiction, Revolution

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

  Iain Banks

  Exercise, Skills, Achievement

  Iain M. Banks (2008). “The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• 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

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• I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

  Iain Banks

  Writing, Cost, Want

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

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• I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

  Iain Banks

  Cities, Scotland, Fans

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com.

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• I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

  Iain Banks

  Eye, Secret, Catechism

  Iain Banks (2013). “The Wasp Factory: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  Iain Banks

  Fun, Writing, Effort

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• What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

  Iain Banks

  Zoos, Rome, Violence

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• I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

  Iain Banks

  Lonely, Children, Only Child

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

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• I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

  Iain Banks

  Husband, Strikes, Deviants

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• In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

  Iain Banks

  Disagree

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com.

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• 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

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• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  Iain Banks

  Reading, Culture, Fiction

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

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• "Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza.
  "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival."

  Iain Banks

  Wall, Eye, Survival

  "Consider Phlebas" by Iain Banks, Orbit Books paperback edition, (p. 102), 1987.

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