Iain Banks Quotes
1954–2013 Scotland
Iain Menzies Banks (February 16, 1954 – June 9, 2013), officially Iain Banks, was a Scottish writer. As Iain M.
- Scotland
- Novelists
- Poets
- Science fiction authors
- Short story writers
Also known as: Banks, Iain
Random Iain Banks quote
185 quotes
“Quettil, it doesn’t matter,” the King said airily, waving one hand. “I prefer accuracy to flattery.”
Inversions (1998)
“I’m very sorry,” the drone said, without a trace of contrition.
The Player of Games (1988)
That was another thing she taught me. That you are what you do. To Providence—or Progress or the Future or before any other sort of judgment apart from our own conscience—what we have done, not what we have thought, is the result we are judged by.
Inversions (1998)
He would give up then, and console himself with something she’d said: that you could not love what you fully understood. Love, she maintained, was a process, not a state. Held still, it withered. He wasn’t too sure about all that; he seemed to have found a calm clear serenity in himself he hadn’t even known was there, thanks to her.
Use of Weapons (1990)
We’ve filled the known universe with credulous idiots and we think we’ve sneakily contributed to our own safety by making it hard for anything untoward to creep in under our sensor coverage whereas in fact we’ve just made sure we harvest zillions of false positives and probably made the really serious shit harder to spot when it does eventually come flying.
Matter (2008)