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Suggest Revision: There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
 
 Irvine Welsh quotes 
Suggest Revision: There'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.
 
 Irvine Welsh quotes 
Suggest Revision: What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
 
 Irvine Welsh quotes 
Suggest Revision: When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
 
 Irvine Welsh quotes 
Suggest Revision: When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
 
 Irvine Welsh quotes 
Suggest Revision: When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
 
 Irvine Welsh quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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.
 
 Irvine Welsh quotes 
Suggest Revision: Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
 
 Irvine Welsh quotes 
Suggest Revision: Basically, 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.
 
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