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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.

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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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There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact there is never a scarcity of idiots.
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If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!
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It was the day my grandmother exploded.
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There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
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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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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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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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One should never mistake pattern for meaning.
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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
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I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.
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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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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.
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I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.
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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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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
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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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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.
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I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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