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" For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board. "

Irvine Welsh

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" We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling. "

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

" Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way. "

" Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level. "

" People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing. "

" I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. "

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Nonfiction

Writing

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

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Town

Book

" I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter. "

" What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving. "

" You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness. "

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

" I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting. "

" I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it. "

" Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice. "

" 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. "

" You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently. "

" There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. "

" 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. "

" Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now. "

" It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead. "

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Almost

Nothing

" I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme. "

" One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity. "

" Writing has been handed to me on a plate. "

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Plate

Writing

" Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos. "

" There is a kind of mysticism to writing. "

" We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show. "

" A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well. "

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Political

People

" The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool. "

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Someone