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
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 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 Copy Share Image
People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial. — Irvine Welsh 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 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'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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for… — Irvine Welsh 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 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
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get… — Irvine Welsh 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
A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle. — Irvine Welsh 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 Copy Share Image
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do… — 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
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