About Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my…

— Ian Rankin

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this…

— Robert Carlyle

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society,…

— Irvine Welsh

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

— Neil Oliver

I miss family and friends, and I'd like to get back to work more in Scotland, and do more things like theatre and 'Red…

— Tony Curran

Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on.

— Winnie Ewing

People go up to Edinburgh thinking it will make them a star, and generally, in the first few weeks back they have to realise…

— Tom Rosenthal

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

— Virginia Woolf

I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.

— Sam Heughan

The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind of society…

— Rory Stewart

It used to be that if I was stopped in the street at all it would be for Ser Barristan Selmy, but now it's…

— Ian McElhinney

You will always worry - a wee lad from Edinburgh going up on stage in Glasgow.

— Iain Stirling