Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it’s always packaged in a very safe way. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
People think if you’re working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
When you grow up in a place, you always think it’s mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you’ve got it the wrong way ’round. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
People either think I’m this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who’s lucked out or they think I’m a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who’s spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It’s flattering, but I’ve not got that much of a gameplan. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
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. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
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. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That’s what makes it what it is. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
I didn’t have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum – the play in the middle – while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I’m writing I don’t like to read other fiction. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
