“Well Joe, the truth is that you’re not a bad guy, but you have been a bit mysogynistic and homophobic. So your… — Irvine Welsh Bad guy Copy Share Image
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research… — Irvine Welsh Arts degrees Copy Share Image
Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
“We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about… — Irvine Welsh Slaves Copy Share Image
“The fact that you use the term "cunt" in the same breath as "sexist", shows that you display the same muddled, fucked-up… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People love talking about their jobs. Take them out, buy them lunch or take them for a beer and they'll talk about… — Irvine Welsh Anonymity Copy Share Image
“[...] but it's aw hate, hate, hate wi some punters, and whair does it git us likesay, man? Whair the fuck does… — Irvine Welsh Hate Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not… — 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
“He's going on and on, and I can't be bothered. I just can't be fuckin well arsed saying something like: Solaris shites… — 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
“We wait and think and doubt and hate. How does it make you feel? The overwhelming feeling is rage. We hate ourself… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the… — Irvine Welsh Belief Copy Share Image
“They filed out into the cold night at closing time, heading for Begbie's place with a carry-out. They'd already spent twelve hours… — Irvine Welsh Closing time Copy Share Image
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 Class Copy Share Image
I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's all been quite a revitalizing process for me, being out there in the States. It wouldn't have happened without Trainspotting. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Nothing is covered adequately by the BBC. The BBC has become the biggest disappointment - they're just so terrified. And in a… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic,… — Irvine Welsh Guitar Copy Share Image
Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my… — Irvine Welsh Brain Copy Share Image
Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective… — Irvine Welsh Computers Copy Share Image
Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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… — Irvine Welsh Class Copy Share Image
I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it.… — Irvine Welsh Being misunderstood Copy Share Image
You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in… — Irvine Welsh Consequence Copy Share Image
It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“The best way ah knew tae strike a chord without compromising too much tae the sickening hypocrisy, perversely peddled as decency, which… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Everything is muffled and car-crash-like and I want to speak but she's looking through me and I'm looking through alcohol. We're nowhere… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Johnny wis a junky as well as a dealer. Ye hud tae go a wee bit further up the ladder before ye… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Mates are a waste of fucking time. They are always ready to drag you down tae their level of social, sexual and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks.… — Irvine Welsh Couple Copy Share Image
When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
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