“Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.” WayWritingKindHas BeensBookDifferentLiteratureProcessWrittenHavensDifferent Ways 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
“When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.” WayKindCharacterPoliticalLiteratureSoundStatementsPretentiousTrainspotting Author:Irvine Welsh
“When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.” PeopleWritingFirstsKindIdeasShowsPerfectReadyFirst TimeSentencesChaptersParagraph Author:Irvine Welsh
“It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state, I can make my own choices." But I've got things to look forward to, and places to go and if that'd been me there forty years ago, when I was a young kid in Muirhouse, it might've been a different story.” IfsNeedsYearsLooksKindI CanDifferentStatesStoriesMightKidsYoungChoicesMy OwnCrazyYears AgoFortyWealthyEmpoweredPlaces To Go Author:Irvine Welsh
“Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindAmericaCommunityCitiesTrumpMarkTownsChicagoSouthernSmall Town Author:Irvine Welsh
“If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at some point, a democracy, because people eventually will realize what's going on. You can only bulls - t people through kinds of media outlets for so long, and eventually you have to physically control them.” PeopleIfsKindLongRealizingWealthDemocracyMediaPlanetsAmountPopulationOutletsBullsTransfersSmall Amounts Author:Irvine Welsh
“I think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he sees it as a whole chance to reboot Europe and reclaim the kind of social mission of Europe from all this corporate, bureaucratic, globalist stuff that has got into, building Europe for the people rather than the banks, again.” PeopleThinkingKindWholeTogetherGuySocialStuffChanceBuildingEuropeMissionsCorporateNegotiationBelgians Author:Irvine Welsh
“If I don't have something to do, I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a beach on holiday. I've got to go and check things out and see things and look at things, and have some kind of itinerary in my mind. I think that a lot of people who are, in some ways, successful are kind of like that.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayMindLooksKindPersonsSuccessfulChecksBeachHoliday Author:Irvine Welsh
“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.” IfsKindWould BeFilmWeekTvsCouplePublishing Author:Irvine Welsh
“We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a forty-year-old divorced alcoholic cop. I thought, really lovely guy, I'll let him and John talk and see if they get on.” PeopleIfsWayYearsKindMadeWantedFilmGuyLevelsMetsDirectorsTenLovelyFinanceHotelFortySpokesCopDivorcedAlcoholicsFilthSohoForty Years Old Author:Irvine Welsh
“It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.” ThinkingKindFeltPityHatsAffirmingLife Affirming Author:Irvine Welsh
“It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made it easier to basically shaft everybody in the country, which it's been doing for the last thirty years. It has also sort of made it more difficult for England to fulfill its destiny, which in my mind is creating a multi-ethnic, multicultural society that is truly at the head of that post-imperial commonwealth ideal. I think that that's what England should be and that that's the kind of nation we should be.” ThinkingShouldYearsMindKindMadeCountryStatesLastsNationsDifficultDestinyEasierCreatingIdealsEnglandMade ItPostsThirtyThirty YearsCommonwealthMulticulturalElitistMulticultural Society 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
“People are really excited by Obama abroad because he seems to be the first American presidential candidate who has ambition to go out of the country. In a sense, with the power of globalization, you are kind of electing the leader of the Western world to an extent.” PeopleWorldFirstsKindCountrySeemsLeaderAmbitionWesternExcitedPresidentialCandidatesGlobalizationWestern WorldPresidential CandidateAmerican President Author:Irvine Welsh
“When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications, and you have to work it out. The great thing about books is that you have a tactile thing that's there. You can download this or download that, but how long do you want to be staring at a screen for the rest of your life? You've got to have some kind of proper interface for people that's not about the screen.” PeopleWantLooksKindLongBookWholeInternetScreensGreat ThingsJournalismStaringWorking ItPlusPrintDeclineRest Of Your LifeExplosionsMinusDownloadsInterfacesRamificationsTactile Author:Irvine Welsh
“I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.” KindStoriesLiteraturePartyGrewGrew UpTraditionClubsStorytellingStorytellerPubsCelticRave Author:Irvine Welsh
“Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.” WantBelieveKindDoeStatesCrapHeads Up Author:Irvine Welsh
