Irvine Welsh: 'I'm the same kind of writer as I am a drinker. I'm a binger'

Irvine Welsh photographed in Leith, Edinburgh. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian When Irvine Welsh began writing 20 years ago, he hadn't much of a clue how to set about a novel. To get…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2462 words)
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