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" 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. "

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" I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all. "

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Uncle

Have Fun

" 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. "

" I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence. "

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

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

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Sitting

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

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

" There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf. "

" 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. "

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

" I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content. "

" In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by. "

" 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. "

" There is a kind of mysticism to writing. "

" What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving. "

" You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness. "

" Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise. "

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

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

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

Irvine Welsh

Plate

Writing

" I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.' "

" The first job of a writer is to be honest. "

" It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more. "

" Hugo Boss is my kind of label. "

" A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes. "

" I just want to get on and tell stories. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling. "