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" 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

People

Who

Leisure

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" I'm 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. "

" Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically. "

" We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy and normality. People spend much more time in their own heads now. There's so much to conform to, so many influences coming at you. "

" There is a kind of mysticism to writing. "

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" Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process. "

Irvine Welsh

Music

Helps

" I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development. "

Irvine Welsh

Listen

Stay

" Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter. "

" I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence. "

" 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. "

" I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.' "

" People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections. "

" I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that. "

Irvine Welsh

Standard

Talking

" People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan. "

" Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other. "

" When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to. "

Irvine Welsh

See

Rest

" There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf. "

" There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things. "