Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically. — 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 Copy Share Image
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving. — 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
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing,… — 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 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
We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever… — Irvine Welsh 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
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
People are really excited by Obama abroad because he seems to be the first American presidential candidate who has ambition to go… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this… — Irvine Welsh 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 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 Copy Share Image
I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've… — 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 belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?” — 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 the state,… — Irvine Welsh 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, as much… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id… — 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. I don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at… — 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 job security,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
![“We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a…” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d43/irvine-welsh-843_alcoholics_we-were-looking-for-someone-who-could-ge_1584255.jpg)
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![“I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've got a good agent, I've got a good manager, I'm getting a lot of work out there and doing a lot of stuff - getting a lot of film projects on the go.” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/918/irvine-welsh-843_agents_i-don-t-see-trainspotting-as-an-albatros_7750.jpg)
