Quotes by : Iain M. Banks

He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was there....

Darkness came like a black flag waved over the canyon, drawing back the grayness from the shores of the....

I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems....

Some problems were generational you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced....

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult....

They speak very well of you".- "They speak very well of everybody."- "That so bad?"- "Yes. It means you....

She'd asked him what it was like to be in there, doing nothing but then being woken up to speak to somebody....

Imagine a vast and glittering ocean seen from a great height. It stretches to the clear curved limit....

Ferbin's father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else.....

I have seen people who find that grief gives them something they never had before, and no matter how....