Iain Banks Quotes

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

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• A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • Want
  • Losing

• I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Day

• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Song
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Time
  • Small
  • Best

• I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Career
  • Past
  • Present

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Think
  • End

• I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Book
  • Know
  • Famous

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Energy

• In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • Country
  • Alive

• I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Want
  • Play

• I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Myself
  • Performance
  • Push

• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Confused

• Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Before
  • Luxury
  • Printing

• When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • Up
  • Writing
  • School

• Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere to be an actress?' No, this is life. That's why I think I don't want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.

  

  Kristine Opolais
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our age.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Age
  • Opinion
  • Goals

• You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.

  

  Carole Bouquet
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.

  

  Blake Judd
  • Band
  • My Life
  • Combination

• 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
  • Writing
  • Difficult