Computers Quote by Denise Mina

I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district…

— Joan Lingard

“The house squatted around them, vast, empty, unnecessary and indestructible. You had to be a fat busy Victorian family to expand enough to fill…

— Penelope Lively

“The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village architecture does not flourish in Scotland. The blue…

— Margaret Oliphant

What I loved about Edinburgh was being able to walk to work through a beautiful place.

— Roger Allam

“After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his little village…

— Bruno Schulz

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and…

— Jamie Bell

“From that day onwards I spent a lot of time on Park Bridge, and soon became aware of other boys with similar interests leaning…

— Eric Lomax

Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.

— Alan Bold

[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

— Alexander McCall Smith

A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously…

— Aleister Crowley

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower…

— John Major