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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks
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Dead Air' is full of rants it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty mea culpa.
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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 wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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-Then what, Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, is making you smile about a disaster? -Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.
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A guilty system recognizes no innocents.
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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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There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.
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Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.
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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'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.
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One should never mistake pattern for meaning.
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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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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 think we need politicians we need people who want to serve.
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