Irvine Welsh Quotes
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
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There are no rules to writing a song.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
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When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.
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I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
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Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
