How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief. — Irvine Welsh Belief Copy Share Image
“Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.” — Irvine Welsh Bullshit Copy Share Image
It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity. — Irvine Welsh Anonymity Copy Share Image
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. — Irvine Welsh Culture Copy Share Image
I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic,… — Irvine Welsh Guitar Copy Share Image
It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in… — Irvine Welsh Consequence Copy Share Image
I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it.… — Irvine Welsh Being misunderstood Copy Share Image
Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about… — Irvine Welsh Class Copy Share Image
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in… — Irvine Welsh Humanity Copy Share Image
Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff. — Irvine Welsh Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
“That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, as long as they’re civil tae… — Irvine Welsh Beauty Copy Share Image
I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they… — Irvine Welsh Biggest loser Copy Share Image
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People are really excited by Obama abroad because he seems to be the first American presidential candidate who has ambition to go… — Irvine Welsh Ambition Copy Share Image
There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache… — Irvine Welsh Beautiful Copy Share Image
Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of… — Irvine Welsh Alcoholic Copy Share Image
“- Then whit? - Git a job. Or git oan a scheme. - No gaunnae stey oan n take Highers? - Naw.… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
I think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he… — Irvine Welsh Belgians Copy Share Image
You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. — Irvine Welsh Baseball Copy Share Image
Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I've always felt really good about England. I've always felt really, really good about Britain. — Irvine Welsh Britain Copy Share Image
I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination. — Irvine Welsh Determination Copy Share Image
“There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?” — Irvine Welsh Cats Copy Share Image
Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them. — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more… — Irvine Welsh Hate Copy Share Image
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach… — Irvine Welsh Emotional energy Copy Share Image
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
