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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. Iain Banks
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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
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I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books! Iain Banks
Character Books Like
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
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed. Iain Banks
Politics You Disagree Allowed Been Much Agreed
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
Big To Be Honest Live Bit Cities Would Dip Like Sure Always Big Cities Huge Huge Fan Scotland Want Fan Loved Again Them Honest
I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve. Iain Banks
People Politicians Think Want Who Serve Need
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. Iain Banks
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so. Iain Banks
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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
Life Love Writing Difficult Though Easy Admire Able Costs Writers Had Doing Been Being Want Them Who Even Imagine
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
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. Iain Banks
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. Iain Banks
Science Looking Ways Find Alternative Science Fiction Trying Fiction Realities
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. Iain Banks
You Legal People Situation Society Slippery System Slippery Slope Slope Torture Tortured Trivial Allow Instantly Almost Soon Very Legal System Get Any Being Where Reasons
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
Book Writing Out Accidentally Get Trying Just Story Might Themes Really Phenomena
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on. Iain Banks
Great Great Deal Thinking Write Come Well Deal Up Going Just Stories Them Really
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
Action Find Some Write Most Involved Lot Effort Quite Quite A Lot Fun
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
You Writing Feeling Action Living Else Characters More More Than Anything Tend Because Caught Up Than Get Anything Anything Else Your
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
History Science Joke Become Arrogant Own Research Furniture Fabric More Foolish Part Fail Most Well Practically Science Fiction Been Legacy Than Done Just Fiction Plain Much Ignore Now Basic Basic Research
When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible. Iain De Caestecker
Me Looking Looking Back Stupid Films Back Brother Horrible Silly Direct He Make Got Were Camera Short Short Films Which Video Video Camera Younger Act Used Now
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London. Iain Glen
Experience Bicycle London Transformed
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated. Iain Glen
You Complicated Big Everything Slower More Studio Budget Around Big Budget Got Create Much Film
You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly. Iain Glen
You Percentage Small Spoilt Regularly Works Actor
I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel. Iain Glen
Work Feel Been Being Actor Aware
I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch. Iain Glen
Director Just Be Just Happiest Watch
As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time. Iain Glen
Time You Try Giving Energy Down Having Familiar Where Bursts Then Actor Things
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