Irvine Welsh : (9)

" 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. " - Irvine Welsh

" You can’t satirise darts, because it’s hyper-real as it is; there’s already enough over-the-top madness to it. " - Irvine Welsh

" Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it’s not got a lot of funk or soul to it. " - Irvine Welsh

" I’m probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn’t appeal at all. " - Irvine Welsh

" Politicians are so… detested; they don’t actually walk amongst people now. " - Irvine Welsh

" Sometimes there’s a snobbery among literary types that these people don’t really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There’s a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level. " - Irvine Welsh

" Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you’re going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it’s going to be a compromise. " - Irvine Welsh

" Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That’s what makes it what it is. " - Irvine Welsh

" Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically. " - Irvine Welsh