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• ‟ It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.

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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 know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

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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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• ‟ I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.

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• ‟ When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £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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