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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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I just want to get on and tell stories.

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

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

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

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.

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

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