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!
Iain BanksThe trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
Iain BanksTruth, 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.
Iain Banks