I’m trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, ‘I don’t really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they’ve come from.’ Irvine Welsh Read Quote
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
There’s something about the modern era where it’s very hard to transgress – we’re all so online, easier to track by mobile phone – so you have people who do it on your behalf. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That’s always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it’s finished. They say, ‘Where’s the book you were going to write?’ And I say, ‘Forget about it. It doesn’t exist.’ Irvine Welsh Read Quote
If you’re going to do something that’s going to cause offence to people, you’re always going to get a reaction. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified. Irvine Welsh Read Quote
