Iain Banks

Naissance 16 February 1954 · Décès 9 June 2013

Originaire de Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom · Nationalité : United Kingdom · Écrit de la fiction et des essais

Iain Banks (16 février 1954 – 9 juin 2013) était un écrivain écossais. Il publiait ses romans de littérature générale sous le nom d'Iain Banks, et ses œuvres de science-fiction sous celui d'Iain M. Banks, en ajoutant l'initiale de son second prénom adopté, Menzies.

Citations

“Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.”
The State of the Art, p. 128En anglais
“Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.”
The State of the Art, p. 75En anglais
“Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.”
Consider Phlebas, Chapter 2En anglais
“That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.”
Consider Phlebas, Chapter 2En anglais
“Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place—and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all—so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.”
Inversions, Chapter 2En anglais