Irvine Welsh Quotes

It's weird: I always feel like my career is about to end. Like someone is coming to get me. I don't know. I guess I need to find a better balance, but without my work, I don't think I would be alive. If I don't work, I don't live.

I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years.

I like normal life, but I will go crazy if I'm not working.

I'm a workaholic, and so I've always got to be doing stuff.

If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working.

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.

When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.

For the record, I'm a clinical workaholic.

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

I go crazy if I'm not working. I find it harder to have down time. I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be working on this job otherwise I go insane.

How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.

I'm such a workaholic. I'm always thinking about work.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

I don't say no as much as I should. I'm an extreme workaholic. So I can be sick, and I still say yes to anything. When you are the CEO of your own company, editor of your own videos, your own writer, and you do every role yourself, you have a hard time saying no to opportunities.

I guess that's a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

I'm an extreme workaholic.

I guess I'm a workaholic!

The only time I don't work is when I am asleep.