Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When I go to places and do book tours, I don't really like doing traditional bookshops. It's nice to walk people through… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in details that might get someone into trouble. I'm more interested in generalities rather than the particulars, as a… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If I don't have something to do, I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a beach on holiday. I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You've got the whole stuff with transgender toilets and stuff like that - that's no way for a government to behave. We're… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
“Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
“There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
“Begbie doesnae even notice; he's in his element, particularly good at funerals in the way a lot ay psychopaths tend tae be. Ah suppose… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
![“I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised people back into the political system that if he didn't win, the disillusionment in America and the idea of more of the same failed policies of the last eight years [2000-2008]…” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1cc/irvine-welsh-843_america_i-think-that-there-are-just-so-many-peop_700710.png)
