Author: Irvine Welsh

Quotes

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.

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.

- Irvine Welsh

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.

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

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

- Irvine Welsh

Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.

Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.

- Irvine Welsh

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

- Irvine Welsh

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

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

- Irvine Welsh

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