Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Abstract Copy Share Image
“You just want tae fuck up on drugs so that everyone'll think how deep and fucking complex you are. It's pathetic, and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to… — Irvine Welsh Cannabis Copy Share Image
I think of the women I know, and very few of them are obsessed with shopping, or with getting a guy -… — Irvine Welsh Feminism Copy Share Image
It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial. — Irvine Welsh Controversial Copy Share Image
Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Begbie doesnae even notice; he's in his element, particularly good at funerals in the way a lot ay psychopaths tend tae be.… — Irvine Welsh Death Copy Share Image
Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life… — Irvine Welsh Dark Copy Share Image
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think the media in America have been absolutely fantastic about the rise of Trump, they've kept a firm eye on the… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made… — Irvine Welsh Commonwealth Copy Share Image
I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching.… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing,… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need… — Irvine Welsh Escapists Copy Share Image
“Statistically speaking, he reflects, you're more likely to be killed by a member of your own family or a close friend, than… — Irvine Welsh Friendship Copy Share Image
In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do… — Irvine Welsh America Copy Share Image
I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer.… — Irvine Welsh Anonymity Copy Share Image
The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or… — Irvine Welsh Basics Copy Share Image
“He notes the depressing haste with which the successful, in the sexual sphere as in all others, segment themselves from the failures.” — Irvine Welsh Depressing Copy Share Image
But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Awright Al? I asked him. A silly question really. Convention always imposes its lunacy on us at such inappropriate times.” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
“Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather… — Irvine Welsh Morning Copy Share Image
I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the… — Irvine Welsh Devil Copy Share Image
I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence… — Irvine Welsh Civics Copy Share Image
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be… — Irvine Welsh Books Copy Share Image
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