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Iain Banks Quotes

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: February 16, 1954 - June 9, 2013

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Time Smart Thought Wish You Play

I definitely see myself as an international musician. When I play, I respect the source of the music, whether it's Cuban, Brazilian or Israeli. I try to bring that to all of the music I play. Music has no borders and no flags.

Music Respect Myself Play Try See

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped inside its little book.

Life Poetry Book You Place Drama

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

Life Family Time Me Building Place

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

Moment Theatre Feel Real Film About

I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.

Family Home School Parents House

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

Talking Quiet Trash Why Days Keep

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

Douglas Coupland

Poetry Writing Voice Speak Think

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

Happy Me Colors Dark Important Even

In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.

People Perfect Say Things Going

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Work Dedication Work Hard Criticism

Comprehension follows perception.

Perception Comprehension Follows

After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue.' The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful.

Girl Beautiful Blue Green World

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