Irvine Welsh Quotes

I am a bookworm.

I'm a bookworm.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

Books are packaged dreams.

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

I'm obsessed with books.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

I get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I get so much inspiration from other authors.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.