Irvine Welsh Quotes
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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.
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I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.
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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
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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.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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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.
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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.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
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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.
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Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
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I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.
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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.
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I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.
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Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.
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I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
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That beats any meat injection … that beats any fuckin cock in the world … Ali gasps, completely serious. It unnerves us tae the extent that ah feel ma ain genitals through ma troosers tae see if they're still thair.