I've always felt really good about England. I've always felt really, really good about Britain. — Irvine Welsh Britain Copy Share Image
Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another — Irvine Welsh Inspirational Copy Share Image
We made the world uninhabitable for ourselves and it can only be inhabited by robots and androids. — Irvine Welsh Androids Copy Share Image
If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that. — Irvine Welsh Drug Copy Share Image
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know? — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or… — Irvine Welsh Basics Copy Share Image
“Awright Al? I asked him. A silly question really. Convention always imposes its lunacy on us at such inappropriate times.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
“Statistically speaking, he reflects, you're more likely to be killed by a member of your own family or a close friend, than… — Irvine Welsh Friendship Copy Share Image
I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer.… — Irvine Welsh Anonymity Copy Share Image
The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It… — Irvine Welsh 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
“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
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
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
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
“She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the… — Irvine Welsh Feminism Copy Share Image
Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing. — Irvine Welsh Feminism Copy Share Image
How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? — Irvine Welsh Choice Copy Share Image
I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster. — Irvine Welsh Biology Copy Share Image
Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content. — Irvine Welsh Happiness Copy Share Image
When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain,… — Irvine Welsh Britain Copy Share Image
Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs… — Irvine Welsh Christmas Copy Share Image
