Scottish Writers Quotes

#1. One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.

Sara Sheridan

#2. The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

Sara Sheridan

#3. I'm not a cop. I'm just a tattoo artist. I'm just a guy who used to be in love with a girl. I'm just a fool who's been fooled too many times before. I'm just a man who's finally getting his revenge.

Karina Halle

#4. If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

John Le Carre

#5. Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Sara Sheridan

#6. Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

Sara Sheridan

#7. I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

Charles Dickens

#8. For we are not as faithful to the being we have most loved as we are to ourselves and sooner or later we forget her - since that is one of our characteristics - so as to start loving another.

Marcel Proust

#9. There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

Herman Melville

#10. I don't ever blink, honestly.

Ridley Scott

#11. You're a bastard, you know that?"

"Being an orphan, I have no idea, but you might be right. Now, can we eat?

Michael J. Sullivan

#12. Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

Sara Sheridan

#13. They had eaten at a place called Terry's for lunch, Terry's Primo Subs in Hampton, which was back in New Hampshire, on the sea.

Joe Hill

#14. Tell me you like it, Olivia. Say the words. Tell me I'm the only one who can set your body on fire like this.

T.K. Leigh