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

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

" When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life. "

" 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. "

" I enjoy the freedom of the blank page. "

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

" 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. "

" The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel. "

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

" I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me. "

" What worries me is the professionalism of everything. "

Professionalism

" 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. "

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

" It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are. "

" When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies. "

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

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

" I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not really a mainstream novelist! "