I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence. — Irvine Welsh Audience Copy Share Image
“His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.' — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath. — Irvine Welsh Class Copy Share Image
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“[...] but it's aw hate, hate, hate wi some punters, and whair does it git us likesay, man? Whair the fuck does… — Irvine Welsh Hate 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,… — Irvine Welsh Britain Copy Share Image
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs… — Irvine Welsh Christmas Copy Share Image
Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. — 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
“It was a familiar pattern. They would whisperingly condemn his violence with those sour, baleful expressions, until they wanted some cunt sorting… — Irvine Welsh Prison 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… — 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 Books Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in details that might get someone into trouble. I'm more interested in generalities rather than the particulars, as a… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“...we need tits and arse because they have got to be available to us; to be pawed, fucked, wanked over. Because we’re… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing… — Irvine Welsh Amazing Copy Share Image
“Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken aw… — Irvine Welsh Pros and cons Copy Share Image
“It was Begbie who ensured he could never return. He had done what he wanted to do. He could now never go… — Irvine Welsh Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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