Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
How did it make you feel?
You can't lie to your soul.
Hugo Boss is my kind of label.
Are you asking me or telling me?
Thir must be less tae life than this
I'm not running away, I'm moving on.
I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
The first job of a writer is to be honest.
Everything in the street today seems soft focus.
Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.
I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.
don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another
I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.
Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.
Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.
How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?
Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.
From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.
People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.
Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.
You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.
I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.
I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.
You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath.
How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.
I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.