Irvine Welsh Quotes - Page 2

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• I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Humanity, Sometimes

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• Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

  Irvine Welsh

  Men, Too Much, Perfectionist

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.88, Random House

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• People love talking about their jobs. Take them out, buy them lunch or take them for a beer and they'll talk about their job, provided they know that you're going to respect their anonymity.

  Irvine Welsh

  Jobs, Beer, Talking

  Interview With Veronica Bond, gapersblock.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I'm not interested in details that might get someone into trouble. I'm more interested in generalities rather than the particulars, as a journalist would be. Names, dates and times don't interest me at all. I'm interested in feelings and emotions. Most people are game, once they realize that you're on the level as far as that's concerned and you're not about exposing them, then they feel quite free to talk about it. Police officers and social workers are no exception.

  Irvine Welsh

  Games, Names, People

  Interview With Veronica Bond, gapersblock.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

  Irvine Welsh

  Sexy, Determination, Doubt

  Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

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• Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Simple, Special

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• Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life

  Irvine Welsh

  Order, Space, Giving

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

  Irvine Welsh

  Inspiration, Waiting, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

  Irvine Welsh

  Baseball, Mind, Bats

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.227, Random House

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• Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

  Irvine Welsh

  Weather, States, Shagging

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.251, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Evoke, Valuable

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

  Irvine Welsh

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.

  Irvine Welsh

  Misunderstood, Needs, Goes On

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

  Irvine Welsh

  Selfish, Trainspotting, Welsh

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• I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Ideas, Next

  Source: thequietus.com

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• [Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Trainspotting

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think, ironically, the media's been good for America, but Trump's been good for the media. He's revitalized The New York Times and CNN - it's never had so much integrity and so much power ever, and that's because being attacked by constant authoritarians and fascists with an agenda has actually got them to sharpen up and to get back to base principles about what the media should actually be. It's also that the circulation boost has removed this horrible, incipient commercial pressure that compromises media.

  Irvine Welsh

  New York, Integrity, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get that I'm going to stop seeing things.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Hands, Film

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Needs, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Preconceptions

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, People, Silence

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.8, Random House

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• When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

  Irvine Welsh

  Music, Song, Writing

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• I think just getting up and getting to the desk is a big thing. If you can do that, you're in the zone because there're so many distractions that can stop you. From my bedroom to my office isn't really that far, but I have to go via the kitchen and there's so many things that can stop me and interrupt me.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Office, Kitchen

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.

  Irvine Welsh

  Phones, Cracks, Remember

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.19, Random House

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• The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Celebration, Celebrate Life, Good Things

  Source: thequietus.com

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