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

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Iain Banks
Age: 59 †
Born: 1954
Born: February 16
Died: 2013
Died: June 9
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Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks
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My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.
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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 go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.
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The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
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I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.
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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
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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.
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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.
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