Adventure Quote by Sara Sheridan

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would…

— Irvine Welsh

I think Scotland has some great stories.

— Billy Boyd

My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions…

— H. P. Lovecraft

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

— Sara Sheridan

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.

— Rick Riordan

“One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.”

— Sara Sheridan

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going…

— Irvine Welsh

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

— Ruth Park

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling.…

— Ishmael Beah

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

We have a rich cultural tapestry in Scotland, it's not that there's a lack of stories.

— Douglas Henshall

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

— Robert McKee