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" It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not. "

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" 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. "

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" Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other. "

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

" 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. "

" Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos. "

" 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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See

Rest

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Still

Immersed

" We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show. "

" From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy. "

" 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. "

" 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 just want to get on and tell stories. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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Plate

Writing

" Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice. "

" The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become. "

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

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Home

Sitting

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" 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. "

" Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. "

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