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  • Author
  • 1954 - 2013
  • 117 quotes

Iain Banks, an author (1954 - 2013), is quoted 117 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Book, People, Thinking and Writing.

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The bomb lives only as it is falling.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

Escape is a consumer goods like another

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

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

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

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

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

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

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!

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

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

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

Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

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

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

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

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

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

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

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

After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.

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

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

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.

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

The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END

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!

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

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

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

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

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

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

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

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

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