The World Motivation
When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
“When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.”
— Irvine Welsh · Britain
When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.
I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.
I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.
We are going to transform Britain's rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you've lived a good life.