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" 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. "

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You

Yourself

Control

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Home

Sitting

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

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

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

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Almost

Nothing

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

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

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

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Still

Immersed

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

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

" When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it. "

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

" Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M. "

" 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. "

" Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown. "

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

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

Irvine Welsh

Nonfiction

Writing

" 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

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

" People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to. "

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