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 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.

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Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke...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

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely.

Iain Banks

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

Iain Banks

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

Iain Banks

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

Iain Banks

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

Iain Banks

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

Iain Banks

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

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

Iain Banks

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