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About Irvine Welsh
Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker
Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker. His work is closely tied to Scotland, where many of his novels and stories are set, and he is known for writing about working-class life. His fiction is marked by blunt, often unsparing portraits of addiction, alienation, limited opportunity and boredom. Those themes recur across his novels and short stories, which focus on the pressures and details of everyday life in working-class Scotland.
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- “'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.”Irvine Welsh
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- “The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to…”William Golding
- “When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing…”Bat for Lashes
- “You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yours…”Charlotte Brontë
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Books by Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting
2004
Ecstacy
1996
Filth
2013
Porno
2003
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs
2007