Banks
Banks
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth15 June 1988
CountryUnited States of America
fun technology thinking
I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
writing cost want
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
cutting trying hitting
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.
disagree
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
character writing feelings
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.
eye secret catechism
I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.
grandmother my-grandmother
It was the day my grandmother exploded.
book years drawing
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
awards facts believer
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!
book long people
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.
lying opposites giving
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.
war anarchist utopia
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
lonely night car
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.
want ifs craters
If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!