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

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

" 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. "

" Hugo Boss is my kind of label. "

" 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. "

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" What worries me is the professionalism of everything. "

Professionalism

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know? "

" 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. "

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

" When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them. "

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

" 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. "

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

" There is a kind of mysticism to writing. "

" I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative. "

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

" 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. "