Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. — Irvine Welsh Baseball Copy Share Image
You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I've always felt really good about England. I've always felt really, really good about Britain. — Irvine Welsh Britain Copy Share Image
I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach… — Irvine Welsh Emotional energy Copy Share Image
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in… — Irvine Welsh Humanity Copy Share Image
Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff. — Irvine Welsh Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Abstract Copy Share Image
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to… — Irvine Welsh Cannabis Copy Share Image
“Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken aw… — Irvine Welsh Pros and cons Copy Share Image
“It was Begbie who ensured he could never return. He had done what he wanted to do. He could now never go… — Irvine Welsh Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing… — Irvine Welsh Amazing Copy Share Image
We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find yir limits,… — Irvine Welsh Adventure Copy Share Image
“People think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shite, which is not to be ignored, but what… — Irvine Welsh Death Copy Share Image
“Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tea absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken all… — Irvine Welsh Choose life Copy Share Image
The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at,… — Irvine Welsh Collapse Copy Share Image
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them. — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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 Image
I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination. — Irvine Welsh Determination Copy Share Image
“There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?” — Irvine Welsh Cats Copy Share Image
“But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment.” — Irvine Welsh Sentiments Copy Share Image
In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it. — Irvine Welsh Comedy Copy Share Image
“No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.” — Irvine Welsh Ambition Copy Share Image
Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. — Irvine Welsh Bad luck Copy Share Image
How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief. — Irvine Welsh Belief Copy Share Image
“Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.” — Irvine Welsh Bullshit Copy Share Image
It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity. — Irvine Welsh Anonymity Copy Share Image
