« All Book Quotes · Irvine Welsh's Page
Book Quotes by Irvine Welsh
- Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and…
- Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way,…
- I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from…
- It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse.…
- It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself…
More Book Quotes
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood