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

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" 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. "

" The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more. "

" So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle. "

" Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process. "

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

" I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.' "

" Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set. "

" Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground. "

" I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel. "

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

" Hugo Boss is my kind of label. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set. "

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

" That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life. "

" 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. "

" It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves. "

" Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff. "

" When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card. "

" Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books. "

" 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. "

" I enjoy the freedom of the blank page. "

" Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing. "