"I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being……" — Irvine Welsh

"I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself."

— Irvine Welsh

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64 Quotes by Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I…
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn…
Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're…
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…
Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to…
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…
How did it make you feel?

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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