Iain Banks Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

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

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

“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 we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.”

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

“I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!”

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

“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.”

“Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.”