Iain Banks Quotes

'You’re a wicked man.''Thank you. It’s taken years of diligent practice.'

Iain Banks

Quotes to Explore

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

Walter Annenberg
- God
- Fight
- Strength
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

J. B. Smoove
- Work
- Great
- Thinking
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

Adam Ferguson
- Work
- Perfect
- Attention
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

Ian Hamilton Finlay
- Artist
- Poet
- Embarrassing
My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

Victor Hugo
- Age
- Career
- Man
'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

Adam Davidson
- Life
- Work
- Love