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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a differ...
Football now, to be honest, it bores me. You can publish the...
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. ...
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page....
I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships....
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but ...
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the la...
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm wri...
I think I'll probably write more women characters and charac...
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social...
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost li...
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn'...
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting ...
I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hop...
I've not really been going out, drinking and carousing. I'm ...
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem reall...
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are ...
Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these...
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create someth...
The first job of a writer is to be honest....
There is a kind of mysticism to writing....
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, i...
There's no plan on what novel I plan to write next. I never ...
What worries me is the professionalism of everything....
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