“I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never ...” — Iain Banks Quote

“I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!”

“Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.”

“Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.”

“I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.”

“I've never been a big believer in formal education.”

“I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.”