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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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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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...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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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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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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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'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
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I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.
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If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!
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