“ If you can't tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I'm saying "hoe" or "bitch" I am actually referring to men. ...That sounded bad, in someway. But at the end of the day, I'm… scott mcgoldrick
“ I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived on longer than I do. Perseverance and te… scott mcgoldrick
“ Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops. Sara Sheridan
“ The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more. Sara Sheridan
“ Annie's message is timeless, her shining spirit and healing gift from the Spiritual Universe will capture your heart. She was born with birth defects in a time when special children and their mothers… Deborah A.Bowman
“ She was smooth and beautiful under his rough, callused hands-an amorous balm to soothe the ugliness of war. Madeline Martin
“ We took morphine, diamorphine, cyclozine, codeine, temazepam, nitrezepam, phenobarbitone, sodium amytal dextropropoxyphene, methadone, nalbuphine, pethidine, pentazocine, buprenorphine, dextromoramide… Irwin Welsh
“ The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy) Muriel Spark
“ Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite. Irvine Welsh
“ 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 travelling in search of adventure. Sara Sheridan
“ An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and loo… James Hogg
“ I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community. Sara Sheridan
“ As every languageless, stateless, selfless nation has one last, twisted image of its worst and best, we have the ceilidh. Here we pretend we are Highland, pretend we have mysteries in our work, preten… A.L. Kennedy
