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A couple of great snippets from the "Trainspotting" author's 60 Second Interview today:
"Language is constantly being shaped and transformed. That's our 'living culture'. I love the idea that what a couple of guys say half-pi**ed in the pub one day is in the Oxford English Dictionary five or ten years later. It's the ultimate democracy."
"I always like drama and conflict; that's what story-telling is. You don't really want to get people when they're doing mundane things. You want them when they're under tremendous pressure."
"You don't want to write something that's just crass and exploitative... [but] you (sic) want to do a book that's looking at issues and horrors and addressing them."
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"Language is constantly being shaped and transformed. That's our 'living culture'. I love the idea that what a couple of guys say half-pi**ed in the pub one day is in the Oxford English Dictionary five or ten years later. It's the ultimate democracy."
"I always like drama and conflict; that's what story-telling is. You don't really want to get people when they're doing mundane things. You want them when they're under tremendous pressure."
"You don't want to write something that's just crass and exploitative... [but] you (sic) want to do a book that's looking at issues and horrors and addressing them."