Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.
From Irvine Welsh
'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.
Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.
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