“It was, as the song said, ‘call to arms music,’ and seemed to have little to do with Scotland and New Year.… — Irvine Welsh Music Copy Share Image
Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and… — Irvine Welsh Boxing Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're… — Irvine Welsh Chance Copy Share Image
You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When… — Irvine Welsh Lifestyle Copy Share Image
When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more,… — Irvine Welsh Alone Copy Share Image
Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications,… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually… — Irvine Welsh 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 Choose life Copy Share Image
We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“All I can think about is that boy’s skull, bashed in, the way his head was caved in and how it wasn’t… — Irvine Welsh Fear Copy Share Image
“A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then it hath less than no… — Irvine Welsh Conscience Copy Share Image
“Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture… — Irvine Welsh Arseholes Copy Share Image
It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you… — Irvine Welsh Behaviour Copy Share Image
As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished.… — Irvine Welsh Beginning Copy Share Image
You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
“The Victim was a chronic fuck-up. People Like her always seemed to hang out with The Poisonous Cunt. In turn, she kept… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same… — Irvine Welsh Budgets Copy Share Image
Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're… — Irvine Welsh Bored Copy Share Image
It's interesting - you had [George] Osborne crying at [Margaret Tatcher] funeral. She would have been the first person, she would have… — Irvine Welsh Cry Copy Share Image
“-ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks… — Irvine Welsh Alcoholic Copy Share Image
“Ah took a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboot Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character,… — Irvine Welsh Character Copy Share Image
The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life… — Irvine Welsh Change Copy Share Image
When I go to places and do book tours, I don't really like doing traditional bookshops. It's nice to walk people through… — Irvine Welsh Book Copy Share Image
A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the… — Irvine Welsh Absence Copy Share Image
I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their… — Irvine Welsh Character Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition:… — Irvine Welsh Celtic Copy Share Image
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