Irvine Welsh Quotes

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.

- Irvine Welsh

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Started | Trainspotting | Characters | Sounded | Pretentious |

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