People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing. — Irvine Welsh Chauvinistic Copy Share Image
People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead. — Irvine Welsh Culture Copy Share Image
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather… — Irvine Welsh Morning Copy Share Image
I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
“It was, as the song said, ‘call to arms music,’ and seemed to have little to do with Scotland and New Year.… — Irvine Welsh Music Copy Share Image
I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the… — Irvine Welsh Devil Copy Share Image
I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence… — Irvine Welsh Civics Copy Share Image
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more… — Irvine Welsh Hate Copy Share Image
We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Ah don’t really know, Tam, ah jist dinnae. It kinday makes things seem mair real tae us. Life’s boring and futile. We… — Irvine Welsh Big things Copy Share Image
“Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they… — Irvine Welsh Biggest loser Copy Share Image
“That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, as long as they’re civil tae… — Irvine Welsh Beauty Copy Share Image
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
“...we need tits and arse because they have got to be available to us; to be pawed, fucked, wanked over. Because we’re… — 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
Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.' — Irvine Welsh Album Copy Share Image
How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath. — Irvine Welsh Class Copy Share Image
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence. — Irvine Welsh Audience Copy Share Image
“His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.' — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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