You're never going to get beyond other people's preconceptions of what you are and what you're about.
Irvine WelshI think of the women I know, and very few of them are obsessed with shopping, or with getting a guy - they want their own thing, they have their own network going on.
Irvine WelshIn 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.
Irvine WelshI didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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