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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.

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Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.

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I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.

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I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.

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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.

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Hugo Boss is my kind of label.

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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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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.

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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: September 27th, 1961

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