The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn’t write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can’t do that, you should leave them alone. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
When a town doesn’t have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
People in Scotland want the parliament but don’t give a toss about the elections. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
It’s ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
