52 Irvine Welsh Quotes for You to Enjoy

Irvine Welsh

Scottish Novelist

Born: Sep 27, 1961

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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. Irvine Welsh

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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other. Irvine Welsh

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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. Irvine Welsh

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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

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. Irvine Welsh

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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. Irvine Welsh

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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. Irvine Welsh

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

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It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way. Irvine Welsh

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The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become. Irvine Welsh

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

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I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.' Irvine Welsh

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

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

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We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy and normality. People spend much more time in their own heads now. There's so much to conform to, so many influences coming at you. Irvine Welsh

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