“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
“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
As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When… — Irvine Welsh Lifestyle Copy Share Image
There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're… — Irvine Welsh Chance Copy Share Image
Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and… — Irvine Welsh Boxing Copy Share Image
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature… — Irvine Welsh Anxiety Copy Share Image
Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by… — Irvine Welsh Choices 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
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
“- 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
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
It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you… — Irvine Welsh Behaviour Copy Share Image
“Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture… — Irvine Welsh Arseholes Copy Share Image
When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“-ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's interesting - you had [George] Osborne crying at [Margaret Tatcher] funeral. She would have been the first person, she would have… — Irvine Welsh Cry Copy Share Image
Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're… — Irvine Welsh Bored Copy Share Image
“Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks… — Irvine Welsh Alcoholic Copy Share Image
You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
“Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished.… — Irvine Welsh Beginning Copy Share Image
[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same… — Irvine Welsh Budgets Copy Share Image
I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“The Victim was a chronic fuck-up. People Like her always seemed to hang out with The Poisonous Cunt. In turn, she kept… — 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 think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think just getting up and getting to the desk is a big thing. If you can do that, you're in the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of… — Irvine Welsh Behavior Copy Share Image
For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually… — Irvine Welsh 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 Choose life Copy Share Image
![“It's interesting - you had [George] Osborne crying at [Margaret Tatcher] funeral. She would have been the first person, she would have read these tears as being as fake as the smiles of his predecessors when they knifed her in the back.” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0d6/irvine-welsh-843_cry_it-s-interesting-you-had-george-osborne_2249200.png)
![“I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/831/irvine-welsh-843_book_i-think-ecstasy-was-a-really-good-stab-i_2910763.png)
![“[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same league as Filth.” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d83/irvine-welsh-843_budgets_ecstasy-had-its-flaws-but-again-it-was-s_1368538.png)
![“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)
