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Iain Banks Quotes: "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."

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

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




Iain Banks Quotes: "I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism."

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



Iain Banks Quotes: "Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised."

Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.




Iain Banks Quotes: "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."

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

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 Quotes: "Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so."

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.




Iain Banks Quotes: "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."

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.



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

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

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 Quotes: ""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.""

"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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: ""You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm.""

"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."



Iain Banks Quotes: "You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters."

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.



Iain Banks Quotes: "Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling."

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.



Iain Banks Quotes: "They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them."

They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.



Iain Banks Quotes: "One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them."

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.



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

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



Iain Banks Quotes: "I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered."

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.



Iain Banks Quotes: "Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again."

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.



Iain Banks Quotes: "Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!"

Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!



Iain Banks Quotes: "What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?"

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?



Iain Banks Quotes: "I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven."

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



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

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 Quotes: "Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy."

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



Iain Banks Quotes: "He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones."

He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones.



Iain Banks Quotes: "I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve."

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



Iain Banks Quotes: "What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?"

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?



Iain Banks Quotes: "I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant."

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



Iain Banks Quotes: "there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions."

there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.



Iain Banks Quotes: "Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."

Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had.



Iain Banks Quotes: "Maybe he's up to something, maybe he'ś not really crazy after all. Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead, and they locked him up because he went too far."

Maybe he's up to something, maybe he'ś not really crazy after all. Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead, and they locked him up because he went too far.



Iain Banks Quotes: "Escape is a commodity like anything else"

Escape is a commodity like anything else



Iain Banks Quotes: "Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?"

Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?