“I wrote about what was around me; that was the whole point – to get down the experiences, scenes, people, etc. But some people are so daft they don’t understand that writing about Prestwich is just as valid as Dante writing about his inferno.”
Mark E. Smith
“My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.”
James Kelman
the folk ye bump intae 
