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Irvine Welsh Facts
Irvine Welsh Is Born On September 27, 1958
Irvine Welsh Is Born In Leith, United Kingdom
Irvine Welsh Nationality Is British
Irvine Welsh Zodiac Sign Is Libra
Irvine Welsh Zodiac Symbol Is Balance
Irvine Welsh Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yang Earth
Irvine Welsh Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Dog
Irvine Welsh Occupation Is Novelist
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Basically, particularly in Britain, its 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
Every kind of book Ive written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I havent re-invented the process every time but I almost have. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
Football now, to be honest, it bores me. You can publish the salaries of the teams and then you look at the standings and they are almost the same. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
I didnt have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
I feel like Ive exhausted guys and male friendships. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
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. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. Thats what I hate about all this technology. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when Im writing I dont like to read other fiction. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. - 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. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
Id always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasnt 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
Im always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you dont see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
Im working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
Ive not really been going out, drinking and carousing. Im being very good, working at the gym, trying to keep body and mind working in the same way. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself youre in control any more. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
Its different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. Its a cliche, but its said that people who read my books dont read any other books, and you do get that element. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
Sometimes theres a snobbery among literary types that these people dont really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. Theres a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
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, theyll write what they feel. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
The first job of a writer is to be honest. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
There is a kind of mysticism to writing. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
Theres all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, its a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
Theres no plan on what novel I plan to write next. I never know what Im going to do one minute to the next. I dont have a master plan. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
What worries me is the professionalism of everything. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. Id generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then theyd turn into novels. I was biased toward music. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. Thats how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasnt making any kind of political statement. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
When Im not writing, I read loads of fiction, but Ive been writing quite constantly lately so Ive been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
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. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. Thats what makes it what it is. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
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