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" 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. "

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" Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer. "

Irvine Welsh

Good

Boxing

Going

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

Irvine Welsh

People

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Irvine Welsh

You

Someone

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content. "

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

Irvine Welsh

Standard

Talking

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

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

Irvine Welsh

Plate

Writing

" 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. "

" 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. "

Irvine Welsh

Political

People

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

" I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone. "

" It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. "

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

Irvine Welsh

Still

Immersed

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

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

" I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation. "

" 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. "

" I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic. "

" I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.' "