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Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n aw. That's it; end ay fuckin story.
Irvine Welsh -
One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
Irvine Welsh
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Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
Irvine Welsh -
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
Irvine Welsh -
The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.
Irvine Welsh -
I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
Irvine Welsh -
I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.
Irvine Welsh -
It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
Irvine Welsh
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'We are all acquaintances now'. It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
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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's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.
Irvine Welsh -
Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
Irvine Welsh -
I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
Irvine Welsh
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
Irvine Welsh -
I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.
Irvine Welsh -
There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
Irvine Welsh -
Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
Irvine Welsh -
Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.
Irvine Welsh
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
Irvine Welsh -
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.
Irvine Welsh -
It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
Irvine Welsh