Quotes by Irvine Welsh

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing...

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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It...

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

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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

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

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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has...

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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come...

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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it...

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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right...

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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly...

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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me....

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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas...

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