Irvine Welsh Quotes
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
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A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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