I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to. Irvine Welsh More Quotes by Irvine Welsh More Quotes From Irvine Welsh Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically. Irvine Welsh west animal people You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and it's going to have massive social repercussions here. Irvine Welsh generations parent firsts I think of the women I know, and very few of them are obsessed with shopping, or with getting a guy - they want their own thing, they have their own network going on. Irvine Welsh shopping guy thinking When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life. Irvine Welsh lasts twenties identity I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character. Irvine Welsh writing character reality The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older. Irvine Welsh getting-old getting-older reader I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas. Irvine Welsh next running ideas In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.' Irvine Welsh careers running ideas I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie. Irvine Welsh culture book thinking If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch. Irvine Welsh tvs couple would-be If I don't have something to do, I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a beach on holiday. I've got to go and check things out and see things and look at things, and have some kind of itinerary in my mind. I think that a lot of people who are, in some ways, successful are kind of like that. Irvine Welsh holiday successful beach I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time. Irvine Welsh projects devil hands I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism. Irvine Welsh fighting europe thinking I think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he sees it as a whole chance to reboot Europe and reclaim the kind of social mission of Europe from all this corporate, bureaucratic, globalist stuff that has got into, building Europe for the people rather than the banks, again. Irvine Welsh europe people thinking These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time. Irvine Welsh rising writing wings I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state. Irvine Welsh becoming poor thinking I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to polarize into the people who are for and anti-freedom. It's not that they'll have a left and a right wing thing, it's going to be a freedom and anti-freedom polarization, I think. Irvine Welsh wings people thinking Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime. Irvine Welsh democracy giving-up want [Ecstasy] had its flaws, but again it was shot on a low budget, and they did well. It's not in the same league as Filth. Irvine Welsh filth flaws league I mean Filth is the best British film since Trainspotting. It might even be better. I keep watching it back to back with Trainspotting to try and work out which is the best. I can't split them. Irvine Welsh work-out trainspotting mean
