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Irvine Welsh Quotes: "Everything in the street today seems soft focus."

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them."

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.




Irvine Welsh Quotes: "don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another"

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with."

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.




Irvine Welsh Quotes: "The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life."

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I'm not running away, I'm moving on."

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative."

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.




Irvine Welsh Quotes: "Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know."

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "You can't lie to your soul."

You can't lie to your soul.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place."

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence."

Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster."

I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.




Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I enjoy the freedom of the blank page."

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time."

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel."

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers."

Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life"

Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books."

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "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."

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.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments."

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "There is a kind of mysticism to writing."

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself."

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships."

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music."

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction."

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind."

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too."

You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved."

There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get that I'm going to stop seeing things."

I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get that I'm going to stop seeing things.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "The first job of a writer is to be honest."

The first job of a writer is to be honest.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "We made the world uninhabitable for ourselves and it can only be inhabited by robots and androids."

We made the world uninhabitable for ourselves and it can only be inhabited by robots and androids.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination."

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically."

Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second."

You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time."

These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism."

I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state."

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character."

I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime."

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble."

I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that."

If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie."

I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same league as Filth."

[Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same league as Filth.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots."

I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and it's going to have massive social repercussions here."

You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and it's going to have massive social repercussions here.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older."

The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party."

If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial."

I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.



Irvine Welsh Quotes: "If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch."

If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch.