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"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."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
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"For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent."
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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."
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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
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"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
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"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living."
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"The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real."
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"Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books."
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"There is a kind of mysticism to writing."
Writing
"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."
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"Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have."
Time
"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."
Creativity
"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 not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it."
Time
"I enjoy the freedom of the blank page."
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"I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information."
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"Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level."
People
"I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself."
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