Culture Quote by Sara Sheridan

I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very…

— Bill Forsyth

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 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

As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time;…

— Garry Hynes

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for…

— Sara Sheridan

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the…

— John McGahern

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

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

— Sara Sheridan

Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an astonishing number…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“Can one understand the presence of English literature without the absences of Irish literature? Are the presences in the former, at some level, bites…

— Rebecca Solnit

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing…

— Terry Eagleton