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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Ideas
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Political
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Nov 07, 2020

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.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Culture
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Nov 07, 2020

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

First Thing
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Dead
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Nov 07, 2020

It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Place
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Nov 07, 2020

It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

Nov 07, 2020

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.

Prisoner
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Nov 07, 2020

I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

I just want to get on and tell stories.

Nov 07, 2020

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Hard Time
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Nov 07, 2020

Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

Each Time
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Nov 07, 2020

'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

Book
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Nov 07, 2020

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.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.

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