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
I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back… — Irvine Welsh British 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 Books Copy Share Image
“This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out.” — Irvine Welsh Alive 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
Id always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to… — Irvine Welsh Drugs Copy Share Image
“Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That’s the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist… — 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 Amendment Copy Share Image
Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been… — Irvine Welsh Absence Copy Share Image
“- Makes nae fucking difference. Rents n Stevie came up fae London for this. If Rents n Stevie kin come up fae… — Irvine Welsh Conservative party 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 Fantasy 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 think, ironically, the media's been good for America, but Trump's been good for the media. He's revitalized The New York Times… — Irvine Welsh Agendas 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 America 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 Athens Copy Share Image
“To those of us gathered here today, Matthew Connell filled a number of different roles in our lives. Matthew was a son,… — Irvine Welsh Eye contact Copy Share Image
“... Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers… — Irvine Welsh Life Copy Share Image
“When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday… — Irvine Welsh Monday Copy Share Image
It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed… — Irvine Welsh Beautiful Copy Share Image
I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can… — Irvine Welsh Dance 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 Book Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
“The politics of the last twenty years in Britain are liars' politics. The problem is we are ruled by the weak and… — Irvine Welsh Liars Copy Share Image
By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories,… — 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 Character Copy Share Image
“Ah took a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboot Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey… — 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 Absence Copy Share Image
I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their… — Irvine Welsh Character Copy Share Image
You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition:… — Irvine Welsh Celtic Copy Share Image
The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life… — Irvine Welsh Change 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 Book Copy Share Image
When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was… — Irvine Welsh Electric shock Copy Share Image
You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
“Football divisions were a stupid and irrelevant nonsense, acting against the interest of working-class unity, ensuring that the bourgeoisie's hegemony went unchallenged.” — Irvine Welsh Football Copy Share Image
If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The… — Irvine Welsh Cheerleader Copy Share Image
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was… — Irvine Welsh Best way 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 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)
