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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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Iain Banks
Age: 59 †
Born: 1954
Born: February 16
Died: 2013
Died: June 9
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Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks
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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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My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.
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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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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 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 still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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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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If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!
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