Art Quote by 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

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

— Sara Sheridan

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

— Sara Sheridan

“These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that’s why there are so…

— Lauren Carr

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

“A considerable debt is owed to these, and to many other books. The aim, however, with Scotland: The Autobiography, has been to gather a…

— Rosemary Goring

“The point of this book is that being Scottish is more than just a matter of nationality or place of origin or clan or…

— Arthur Herman

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

— Sara Sheridan

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many…

— Paul Muldoon

“Any good, persistent, business-minded, prolific writer can succeed if they keep writing and moving forward. For the modern author, that’s excellent news.”

— Sean Platt

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan