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" Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it. "

" 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 used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write. "

" 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. "

" It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there. "

" It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way. "

" I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. "

" I just want to get on and tell stories. "

" In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame Street.' "

" 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. "

" 'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America. "

" When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them. "

" It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers. "

" Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff. "

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

" The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become. "

" When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set. "

" As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums. "

" Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process. "

" I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer. "

" 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. "

" From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy. "

" It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place. "

" I'm not really a mainstream novelist! "

" I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence. "

" Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise. "

" 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. "

" I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard. "

" Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better. "

" When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music. "