In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame Street.'
From Irvine Welsh
It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.
A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.
I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'
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