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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
Iain Banks
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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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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
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Well, he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. Here we are again.
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I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.
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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
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I think we need politicians we need people who want to serve.
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Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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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.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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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.
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Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.
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You're a wicked man. Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.
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I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.
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There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
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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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Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.
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