Irvine WelshThoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life ✨ Irvine Welsh (1995). The Acid House, p… ▶362LifeThought
Irvine WelshI enjoy the freedom of the blank page.363Reading
Irvine WelshSometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence. ✨ Irvine Welsh (2008). Trainspotting, p.8, Random House352HumanityThoughtTime
Irvine WelshEven as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the ce… ▶352LifeSadnessTruth
Irvine WelshThe dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise th… ▶341Death
Irvine WelshI'm not running away, I'm moving on.331Humanity
Irvine WelshHe emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talke… ▶342DeathLifeTime
Irvine WelshBasically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.375HumanityReadingTime
Irvine WelshWe start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which j… ▶354DeathHopeLife
Irvine WelshAh walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been away. It’s as if everything is a copy… ▶376Time
Irvine WelshIt's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or under… ▶356Life
Irvine WelshThere's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's… ▶281Time
Irvine WelshI was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerabi… ▶347HumanityLifeThought
Irvine WelshBy definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be. 271DeathLife
Irvine WelshIt was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself … ▶3510Life
Irvine WelshYou can't lie to your soul. ✨ Irvine Welsh (2009). T2 Trainspotting, p.363, Random House305Humanity
Irvine WelshNow there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.316Life
Irvine WelshI'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody… ▶221Reading
Irvine WelshSome people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.288HumanityLove
Irvine Welshdon't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another222Reading
Irvine WelshThir must be less tae life than this ✨ Irvine Welsh (2008). Trainspotting, p.249, Random House299Life
Irvine WelshI think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writi… ▶289Thought
Irvine WelshI didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.202Love
Irvine WelshIt’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body. ✨ Irvine Welsh… ▶2810Humanity
Irvine WelshIt wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.224ThoughtTime
Irvine WelshI grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties… ▶181Reflection
Irvine WelshThere's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.171HumanityReadingSadness
Irvine WelshThe first job of a writer is to be honest. ✨ Twitter post from Sep 27, 2012248Truth
Irvine WelshYou can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.2610Thought
Irvine WelshBut even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even. ✨ Irvine Welsh (2009). T2 … ▶227ThoughtTime
