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" Hugo Boss is my kind of label. "
Irvine Welsh
Hugo
Kind
Label
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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. "
Irvine Welsh
Try
Dance
Down
" There is a kind of mysticism to writing. "
Irvine Welsh
Mysticism
Kind
Writing
" 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. "
Irvine Welsh
Dark
Kind
Life
" 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
Me
Listen
Stay
" 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. "
Irvine Welsh
Time
People
Writing
" I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me. "
Irvine Welsh
Me
Time
Want
" Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown. "
Irvine Welsh
Wonderful
Cult
Band
" 'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new. "
Irvine Welsh
Time
Box
Dive
" 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. "
Irvine Welsh
Play
Cinema
End
" 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. "
Irvine Welsh
Time
Humanity
Short
" I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are. "
Irvine Welsh
Book
Think
People
" People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing. "
Irvine Welsh
Getting
Without
People
" I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else. "
Irvine Welsh
Know
Identity
Gym
" One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity. "
Irvine Welsh
Writer
Things
Want
" I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all. "
Irvine Welsh
World
Ice Cream
Over
" 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. "
Irvine Welsh
Technology
I Am
Writing
" In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame Street.' "
Irvine Welsh
New York
Street
Said
" I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships. "
Irvine Welsh
Exhausted
Guys
I Feel Like
" From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy. "
Irvine Welsh
Realism
Acid
House
" 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. "
Irvine Welsh
I Can
Uncle
Have Fun
" 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. "
Irvine Welsh
Skin
Think
Sometimes
" 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. "
Irvine Welsh
Turn
Ideas
Music
" Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have. "
Irvine Welsh
Book
Writing
Way
" Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales. "
Irvine Welsh
Amazing
Think
People
" Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically. "
Irvine Welsh
Kind
Everyone
Drama
" The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more. "
Irvine Welsh
More
Home
Sitting
" How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified. "
Irvine Welsh
Guys
How
Just
" I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing. "
Irvine Welsh
Producing
Doing
Directing
" It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it. "
Irvine Welsh
Furniture
Very
Imagery
" I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write. "
Irvine Welsh
Sit
Circle
Used