“N it's fuckin well beyond violence, it's beyond even sexual; it's a kind ay love, a fuckin bizarre, vain-glorious self-adoration, way past… — Irvine Welsh Adventure Copy Share Image
If I don't have something to do, I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a beach on holiday. I've… — Irvine Welsh Beach Copy Share Image
I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the… — Irvine Welsh Battle Copy Share Image
“Fuckin failures in a country of failures. Its nae good blamin it oan the English fir colonising us. Ah don't hate the… — Irvine Welsh Arseholes Copy Share Image
“This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy… — Irvine Welsh Funny Copy Share Image
Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party.There is… — Irvine Welsh Analysis Copy Share Image
You've got the whole stuff with transgender toilets and stuff like that - that's no way for a government to behave. We're… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
“--Thing is though, Spud, whin yir intae skag, that's it. That's aw yuv goat tae worry aboot. Ken Billy, ma brar, likes?… — Irvine Welsh Addiction Copy Share Image
“This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam … that poison… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact… — Irvine Welsh Choose life Copy Share Image
“Renton looks at her and sees her pain and anger. It cuts him up. It confuses him. Kelly has a great sense… — Irvine Welsh Feminism Copy Share Image
We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think the media in America have been absolutely fantastic about the rise of Trump, they've kept a firm eye on the… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made… — Irvine Welsh Commonwealth Copy Share Image
I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life… — Irvine Welsh Dark Copy Share Image
Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications,… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching.… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more,… — Irvine Welsh Alone 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
“A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then it hath less than no… — Irvine Welsh Conscience Copy Share Image
“All I can think about is that boy’s skull, bashed in, the way his head was caved in and how it wasn’t… — Irvine Welsh Fear Copy Share Image
We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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