I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
From Irvine Welsh
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
I just want to get on and tell stories.
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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