Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We made the world uninhabitable for ourselves and it can only be inhabited by robots and androids. — Irvine Welsh Androids Copy Share Image
don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another — Irvine Welsh Inspirational Copy Share Image
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know? — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that. — Irvine Welsh Drug Copy Share Image
I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Everything is muffled and car-crash-like and I want to speak but she's looking through me and I'm looking through alcohol. We're nowhere… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Johnny wis a junky as well as a dealer. Ye hud tae go a wee bit further up the ladder before ye… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“The best way ah knew tae strike a chord without compromising too much tae the sickening hypocrisy, perversely peddled as decency, which… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my… — Irvine Welsh Brain Copy Share Image
Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective… — Irvine Welsh Computers 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
“writing about drugs is like that though, isn't it? You can just tell when someone is writing about drugs and they've never… — Irvine Welsh Drugs 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
We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the… — Irvine Welsh Battle of the sexes 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
“Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Ah don’t really know, Tam, ah jist dinnae. It kinday makes things seem mair real tae us. Life’s boring and futile. We… — Irvine Welsh Big things Copy Share Image
Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster. — Irvine Welsh Biology Copy Share Image
How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? — Irvine Welsh Choice Copy Share Image
Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing. — Irvine Welsh Feminism Copy Share Image
I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content. — Irvine Welsh Happiness Copy Share Image
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the… — Irvine Welsh Feminism Copy Share Image
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment.” — Irvine Welsh Sentiments Copy Share Image
“No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.” — Irvine Welsh Ambition Copy Share Image
In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it. — Irvine Welsh Comedy Copy Share Image
Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. — Irvine Welsh Bad luck Copy Share Image
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