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Scottish - Novelist | September 27, 1961 -

From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

House Fantasy Realism Urban Acid

So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

People Lifestyle Become System Many

The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

Home Me Think Sitting More Out

I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.

Opportunity Think Process Project

Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

Work Walls Sometimes Plans Office

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

Book Write Audience Pure Perceive

I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

Think End Cinema Play Entertainment

It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.

Good Me America Understand Try Been

People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.

People Think Genius Create Kind Out

In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.

People I Can Go Chicago Office Room

I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

Circle Go Write Line Sit Used

Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.

People Looking Finding Nobody Run

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