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" How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified. "

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

" I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. That's what I hate about all this technology. "

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

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

" It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it. "

" 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. "

" I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it. "

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

" Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places. "

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

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

" 'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new. "

" The first job of a writer is to be honest. "

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

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

" People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath. "

" I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all. "

" Hugo Boss is my kind of label. "

" '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. "

" I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships. "

" The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks. "