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" By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films. "
Iain Banks
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" You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters. "
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" I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there. "
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" I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books! "
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" Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. "
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" I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again. "
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" I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. "
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" I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework. "
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" I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it. "
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" I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on. "
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" I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. "
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" I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water. "
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" In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming. "
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Day
" In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed. "
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" I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve. "
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" There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun. "
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" I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese. "
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" You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really. "
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" As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book. "
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" 'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa. "
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" Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. "
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" Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research. "
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