All Irvine Welsh Quotes
- Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. Candidates
- What worries me is the professionalism of everything. Inspirational
- It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. Both
- Are you asking me or telling me? Asking
- Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. Culture
- I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships. Exhausted
- Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way,… Any
- I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from… Always Liked
- I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because… Always Watching
- I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the… Bbc
- It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse.… Any
- Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than… Among
- The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to… Actually Going
- When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to… Any
- Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve… Choose
- It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying… Any
- I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have… Celtic
- You can't lie to your soul. Honesty
- I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe… Battle
- His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with. Bad