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Writing Scotland - A journey through Scotland's Literature

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Edwin Morgan at work
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Browse the list to learn about the Scottish writer of your choice. Each has a biography, a review of their major works, and a reading list. You can also offer your own opinions of featured works in the User Reviews section.
'If to have expressive words and balanced phrases ringing in one's head is to be a writer, then I am one.'
Catherine Carswell

'To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.'
Robert Louis Stevenson

'Not traditions - precedents!'
Hugh MacDiarmid

'Honestly, there’s nothing else apart from that. To obliterate the narrator, get rid of the artist, so all that’s left is the story.'
James Kelman




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