“I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.” FeelsGuyLiteratureMalesExhaustedMale Friendship Author:Irvine Welsh
“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.” FeelsKindBookWantedLiteratureExcitementGoing Out Author:Irvine Welsh
“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.” PeopleFeelsWritingTryingLiteratureNewspapersEstablishmentScottish Author:Irvine Welsh
“Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru. I always thought that if I was to be a hundred, somehow Bowie would be a hundred and fifteen. He'd be there to still steer me and guide me.” IfsFeelsStillsWould BeSpiritualLostLeaderClassGenerationsEmotionalHundredGuidesBritainFifteenWorking ClassGuruMy GenerationSteersBowieSpiritual LeaderGuide MeEmotional Things Author:Irvine Welsh
“When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to breathe and breed on this earth, so we replace ourselves with androids that can do. The androids can go up into space and take the future of humanity forward because maybe we just bow out with a carbon-based epoch.” ThinkingFeelsAbleEarthHumanityCan DoSpaceBreatheBowsCarbonHomo SapiensEpochAndroidsFuture Of Humanity Author:Irvine Welsh
“If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel uncomfortable. I think if you're starting to feel uncomfortable with something when you're writing it, that's the reason really to push on with it.” IfsThinkingFeelsWritingKindReasonStartingUncomfortable Author:Irvine Welsh
“I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsNaturalWrittenTabooNatural Things Author:Irvine Welsh
“I'm not interested in details that might get someone into trouble. I'm more interested in generalities rather than the particulars, as a journalist would be. Names, dates and times don't interest me at all. I'm interested in feelings and emotions. Most people are game, once they realize that you're on the level as far as that's concerned and you're not about exposing them, then they feel quite free to talk about it. Police officers and social workers are no exception.” PeopleFeelsFeelingsMightWould BeGamesNamesSocialInterestRealizingLevelsEmotionTroubleConcernedPoliceWorkersDetailsJournalistExceptionOfficersNot InterestedFeelings And EmotionsPolice OfficerExposingSocial WorkerGeneralities Author:Irvine Welsh
“Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so precarious. Even salaried people in the West now feel this sense of being trapped, not having the freedom to strike out.” PeopleFeelsJobsSocialClassMiddleWestStrikesMiddle ClassOccupationTrappedGood JobEmbarrassmentPrecariousPitfalls Author:Irvine Welsh
“I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this bar and tried to find out what happened, and the bartender said "it's only the American and the Arabs. They're not big football nations." So the feeling was, what's it got to do with us? Why are football games being cancelled in Europe? The intelligentsia in the West feel like they have to figure out the significance of it all, whereas people have other pressing concerns, related to basic needs.” PeopleNeedsFeelsSaidFeelingsBigsGamesNationsHappenedFiguresFootballEuropeConcernDown AndWestBarsRelatedSignificanceSpectacularFootball GameAthensBartenderBasic NeedsFootball Match Author:Irvine Welsh
“People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have to engage with that if you're writing about the modern world. You've also got all these pop references that you feel obligated to make. They're just part of the bricolage of the whole thing, whether or not these are actually significant elements themselves.” PeopleIfsWorldFeelsWritingWholeSeemsModernElementsMessagesPopsSignificantSplitsModern WorldDumpDisposableText Message Author:Irvine Welsh
“I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.” NeedsFeelsGoes OnComfortableMisunderstoodBeing Misunderstood Author:Irvine Welsh
