I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.
Irvine WelshWriting is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
Irvine WelshChoose 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?
Irvine WelshThese days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.
Irvine WelshIt was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn't. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed.
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