They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them. Iain Banks More Quotes by Iain Banks More Quotes From Iain Banks I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds. Iain Banks technology fun thinking I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them. Iain Banks cost want writing I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered. Iain Banks lasts forever men 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 writing trying book 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. Iain Banks gentleman player years 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 effort writing fun 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 home book school Escape is a consumer goods like another Iain Banks goods consumers You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters. Iain Banks feelings writing character Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you. Iain Banks waking-life ordinary years All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy. Iain Banks fantasy littles thinking Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so. Iain Banks smell reading animal 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 scotland fans cities 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 males falling-in-love character Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity! Iain Banks age looks fall In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed. Iain Banks disagree One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. Iain Banks pleasure law may "I think I know the real reason." "Which is?" "Alcohol in the dust clouds. Goddamn stuff is everywhere. Any lousy species ever invents the telescope and the spectroscope and starts looking in between the stars, what do they find?" He knocked the glass on the table. "Loads of stuff, but much of it alcohol." He drank from the glass. "Humanoids are the galaxy's way of trying to get rid of all that alcohol." Iain Banks stars real thinking You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice. Iain Banks taken men years The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides. Iain Banks tactics usual sides
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