I've always got a book in my hands, a novel in my hands. The more I get into film, the more paranoid I get that I'm going to stop seeing things. 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 westanimalpeople 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 generationsparentfirsts 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 shoppingguythinking 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 laststwentiesidentity 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 writingcharacterreality The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older. Irvine Welsh getting-oldgetting-olderreader I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas. Irvine Welsh nextrunningideas In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.' Irvine Welsh careersrunningideas 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 culturebookthinking 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 tvscouplewould-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 holidaysuccessfulbeach 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 projectsdevilhands 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 fightingeuropethinking 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 europepeoplethinking 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 risingwritingwings 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 becomingpoorthinking 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 wingspeoplethinking Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime. Irvine Welsh democracygiving-upwant [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 filthflawsleague 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-outtrainspottingmean
