"The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't."

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Source : "Iain Banks: the final interview". Interview with Stuart Kelly, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2013.

Iain Banks

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“One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.”
“I started producing in 1992 at the age of 15, when I found out music could be made with the help of a computer. I come from a musical family, but was always the family member not as good as the others. So once I found out I could release the music that was stuck inside my head through a computer, I knew I found what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.”
“Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.”
“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”
“I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.”
“But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”
“That's what you want: you want projects that you fall in love with. I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.”
“The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.”

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