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Iain Banks Biography

Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies (/ˈmɪŋɪz/ ( listen)).

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There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

Gods, Make, My Own, Salvation, Told

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

Day, Exploded, Grandmother, My Grandmother

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

Guilt, Guilty, Innocents, Recognizes, System

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.

Cost, Life, Though, Want, Writers, Writing

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

Deviant, Deviants, Husband, Strike, Strikes

But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird. . . but how could you be a seabird? If you were a seabird your brain would be tiny and stupid and you would love half-rotted fish guts and tweaking the eyes out of little grazing animals; you would know no poetry and you could never appreciate flying as fully as the human on the ground yearning to be you. If you wanted to be a seabird you deserved to be one.

Animal, Animals, Eye, Eyes, Stupid

He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know better ones.

Answers, Enemy, Everything, Knows, Ones

You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm.

Asked, Doe, Gurgeh, Littles, Men, Music

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

Causes, Seeks, Solipsism, Suspicion, Theory, Utmost

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.

Book, Books, Home, Hot, School, Water

People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.

Feel Better, People, Sorrow, Sorry, Stopped

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.

Big, Cities, Fan, Fans, Scotland

Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.

Devalue, Generally, Nonsense, Ocean, Patently, Ravings

After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.

Drink, Malt, Research

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

Book, Drawing, Old, University, Year, Years

The bomb lives only as it is falling.

Bomb, Bombs, Fall, Falling, Lives

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

Ability, Saying, Skill, Skills, Writing

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

Book, Film, Films, Make, Usual, Worst

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.

Book, Phenomena, Story, Themes, Trying, Writing

Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through usually a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society's information dissemination systems and its lesser as a rule nominally independent power systems. In short, it's all about dominance.

Class, Independent, Privileged, Restricted, Rule, Use

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