Wells Quotes by Irvine Welsh

8 Wells quotes by Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh’s eight short lines turn wells into a backdrop for urban realism, offering a compact taste of his unvarnished storytelling.

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I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the…

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That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure…

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As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing,…

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[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same…

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You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need…

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In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do…

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Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because…

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The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's…

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