Irvine Welsh Quotes - Page 4

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• I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

  Irvine Welsh

  Issues, People, Controversial

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• When I go to places and do book tours, I don't really like doing traditional bookshops. It's nice to walk people through something instead of just standing up in a bookstore.

  Irvine Welsh

  Nice, Book, People

  Interview with Alissa Strother, gapersblock.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

  Irvine Welsh

  Phones, Answering The Phone, Locks

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, War, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad for people and bad for society, but the whole notion of festival is tied up with intoxication.

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Drug, Festivals

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• I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Korean, Scots

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I've always felt really good about England. I've always felt really, really good about Britain.

  Irvine Welsh

  England, Britain, Felt

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Careers, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Hats, Kind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

  Irvine Welsh

  Reality, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Character, Reality

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it does complicate things, when you're being constantly bombarded with it, but you have to embrace it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Character, People

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret] Thatcher. Who'd have thunk she'd have been the first to go? She was the invisible author of the book, really. She created the conditions and the hubris whereby that whole culture flourished.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Boys, Sick

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

  Irvine Welsh

  Party, Thinking, Scotland

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Nothing is covered adequately by the BBC. The BBC has become the biggest disappointment - they're just so terrified. And in a way it's not their fault: the parties have used them as a political football.

  Irvine Welsh

  Football, Disappointment, Party

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party.There is no analysis of anything beyond that, and these two parties are exactly identical, following the same Neoliberal policies for thirty years. And it's no criticism outside of that, it's just that there's basically sectarian pandering to these two individual parties, these two individual organisations. They still make a lot of great programmes and do a lot of great things, but there's not much political analysis happening broader to that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Party, Years, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Cities, America

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Drug, Stopping, Revolution

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The media has to be critical - it has to scrutinize it, it has to call out things.

  Irvine Welsh

  Sorry, Media, Cheerleader

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think the media in America have been absolutely fantastic about the rise of Trump, they've kept a firm eye on the ball: this constitutes democracy, this constitutes transparency, this constitutes fairness, this constitutes the way to behave in a civic society, this constitutes fascism, this constitutes authoritarianism. They're drawing that line, and they're calling him out every time. That's really what needs to happen, and you just have to do that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Eye, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Fighting, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You've got the whole stuff with transgender toilets and stuff like that - that's no way for a government to behave. We're supposed to be against ISIS, so why are we trying to slowly introduce a country-club version of Sharia law in America, you know? It doesn't make any real sense at all. I think there's going to be a lot of energy, there is already a lot of reaction against that - people are prepared to really stand up and be counted for democracy, and in the process to find out what is and what isn't.

  Irvine Welsh

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to polarize into the people who are for and anti-freedom. It's not that they'll have a left and a right wing thing, it's going to be a freedom and anti-freedom polarization, I think.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Wings, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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