The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling… — 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 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
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
I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile… — Irvine Welsh 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 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 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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