Scottish - Novelist | September 27, 1961 -
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
Irvine Welsh
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
FurnitureHardWithoutImageryVery
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
TimePeopleWritingStartDoingYou
It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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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.
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I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
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Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
MusicMeWritingProcessHelps
I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.
WorkIdentityPeopleSomeoneLoser
You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.
EnoughMadnessYouBecauseDarts
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
WithoutSomethingBecomingPrisoner
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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