Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welshis a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer. He is recognised for his novel Trainspotting, which was later made into a film of the same name. His work is characterised by a raw Scots dialect and brutal depiction of Edinburgh life. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth27 September 1958
song writing ideas
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.
reflection feels
How did it make you feel?
book writing class
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
writing kind mysticism
There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
jobs firsts honest
The first job of a writer is to be honest.
running hate good-luck
Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against.
party stories literature
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
selfish trainspotting welsh
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
phones cracks remember
It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.
thinking people silence
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
sexy determination doubt
I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
focus today streets
Everything in the street today seems soft focus.
writing fiction-and-nonfiction nonfiction
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
behaviour realizing precedent
It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.