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Iain Banks
Scottish
Writer
About the author
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks,
Scottish
Writer
#Books
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
Iain Banks,
Scottish
Writer
#Saying
#Ability
#Writing
#Worth
#Skill
Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
Iain Banks,
Scottish
Writer
#Possibilities
#Technology
#State
#Society
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!
Iain Banks,
Scottish
Writer
#Nothing
#Fact
#Awards
I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
Iain Banks,
Scottish
Writer
#Character
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
Iain Banks,
Scottish
Writer
#Consciousness
#Machines
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks,
Scottish
Writer
#Film
#People
#Writer
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.
Iain Banks,
Scottish
Writer
#Time
#Play
#Thought
#Writer
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,
Scottish
Writer
#American
#Future