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Irvine Welsh Quotes

I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: September 27, 1961

Topics

Mainstream Really Novelist

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.

Work Nature Poetry Mind Better Wish

The malls are getting more and more crowded. Customers will come online and find an easy place to shop.

Robert J. Fisher

Easy Find Place Will More Customers

It pumps me up - the whole idea of the bowler marking his run-up, popping at the crease, the crowd chanting, nerves building up. It's a very good feeling. Right from the first ball, I know I have to be at the top of my game.

Good Me Building Game Feeling Know

I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

People Care You Movies Horror Never

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

Change Think Done Now Write Expect

I feel as if I'm God's champion, and I have a lot of pride in that.

God Champion Pride Feel I Feel Lot

My parents would take us to double-feature movies on the weekends, and I would just point at the screen and tell them that that's what I wanted to do.

Deborah Joy Winans

Parents Movies Point Tell Weekends

I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?

I Am Brain Voice Think Interesting

There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Sylvester McCoy

Time People Weather Problems Enough

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

Parents Florida Mexico Backyard Gulf

I was never specifically associated with a part, I didn't have tons of money, I wasn't conventionally tall or handsome, so you know the things that were available to me were hard work and perseverance.

Work Hard Work Perseverance Money Me

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

History Think Learn You Seem Would

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