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Irvine Welsh Biography

Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is 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.

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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.

Cheerleader, Media, Popular, Scrutinize, Sorry, State

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

Cracks, Maintain, Payments, Phones, Remember

The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level.

Levels, Stuff, Subsequent, Success, Trainspotting

It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body.

Beautiful, Leaving, Sea, Shite, Subside

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

Focus, Soft, Street, Streets, Today

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.

Art, Civic, People, Restraints, Think, Thinking

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Easier, Love, People

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

Blank, Freedom, Literature, Page, Pages

I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back with Trainspotting to try and work out which is the best. I can't split them.

Film, Mean, Trainspotting, Watching, Work Out

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

Changed, Like, Sense, Served, Tae, Things

We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a forty-year-old divorced alcoholic cop. I thought, really lovely guy, I'll let him and John talk and see if they get on.

Alcoholic, Guy, Looking, People, Ten, Years

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.

Humanity, People, Person, Short, Sometimes, Watching

Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.

Addiction, Apparently, Link, Links, Vegetarianism

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.

Celebrate Life, Celebration, Death, Fetishizing, Good Things, Thing

The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.

Across, Ghouls, Men, Princess, Shufti

Thir must be less tae life than this

Life, Tae, Thir

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

Culture, Everything, Literature, Writing

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.

Thinking, Cities, America, Sort, Mark, Classy

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.

Reality, Thinking, Long, Telling, Way, Tone

Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

Choose, Life, Needs, Reason, Reasons, Trainspotting

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