Top 33 Quotes by Iain Banks

About Iain Banks

These are some quotes by Scottish author Iain Banks Writer, who lived between February 16, 1954 and June 9, 2013.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Iain Banks

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

Iain Banks

'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

Iain Banks

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Iain Banks

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

Iain Banks

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

Iain Banks

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Iain Banks

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Iain Banks

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

Iain Banks

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.

Iain Banks

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