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

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" It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There is a kind of mysticism to writing. "

" Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it. "

" I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I enjoy the freedom of the blank page. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction. "

" 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. "

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