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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

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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.

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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid Â£17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

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Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

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I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

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So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.

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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Margaret Mead

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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Margaret Mead

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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Margaret Mead

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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

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The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.

Ingmar Bergman

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

Irvine Welsh

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

Ingmar Bergman

I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

Dan Brown

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

Dan Brown

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.

Irvine Welsh

If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

Dan Brown

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Irvine Welsh

It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

Irvine Welsh

I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

Irvine Welsh

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Dan Brown

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Dan Brown

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Irvine Welsh

Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

Irvine Welsh

'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

Irvine Welsh

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Irvine Welsh

I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

Irvine Welsh

When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid Â£17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Irvine Welsh

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Irvine Welsh

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

Dan Brown

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Irvine Welsh

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

Dan Brown

That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

Irvine Welsh

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Dan Brown

A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

Irvine Welsh

So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

Irvine Welsh

The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

Irvine Welsh

It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

Irvine Welsh

Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

Irvine Welsh

Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

Dan Brown

I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Margaret Mead

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Margaret Mead