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• I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to…
• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research…
• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
• Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts,…
• Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
• Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control…
• Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my…
• I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
• I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
• The first job of a writer is to be honest.
• There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford…

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