Irvine Welsh Quotes

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• I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed,…
• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity…
• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
• Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene…
• Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
• Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k…
• Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life
• I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
• I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
• The first job of a writer is to be honest.
• There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and…
• How did it make you feel?
• When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn…
• There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a…
• The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that…
• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the…
• I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a…
• When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction -…
• I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

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