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I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.

~Aidan Gillen

Topics: Edinburgh Experienced Festival Film Film Festival Glasgow Like Liked Too

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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

~Alan Rickman

Topics: Always Am Come Coming Coming Home Edinburgh Feel Home Many Ways I Am

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I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years to write and two years to sell.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Autobiographical Down Edinburgh Five Novel Sat Sell Took Try Two Write Years

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It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Actually Angry Attention Away Back Because Drawer Edinburgh Essentially Felt Get Had Idea Life Like Me Much Much Attention My Life Night Off Oh Out Pulled Queen Really Ruined Sort Taking Thought Took Until While

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In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: About Child Could Edinburgh Entirely Experience Had Happened Me Night Novel Queen Read Some Speak Unable Ways Where Writing

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Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: City Edinburgh Haughty Used

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I try not to think about writers who came before me when I'm writing myself. If I did, given the abundance of literary talent Scotland - and Edinburgh in particular - has bestowed upon the world, I wouldn't be able to get as much as a sentence written.

~Allan Guthrie

Topics: Able About Abundance Before Bestowed Came Did Edinburgh Get Given Literary Me Much Myself Particular Scotland Sentence Talent Think Try Who World Writers Writing Written

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I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: After Age Born Both Both My Parents Case Days Deep Edinburgh Education Effects End Father Few Had History Influencing Left Mathematics Me Measurement Mother Parents School Scotland Second Second World War Toward Very War World World War Writing Young Young Age I Was Born

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When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom.

~Angus Deaton

Topics: Boy Cold Daylight December Dream Edinburgh Escaping Few Hours Kingdom Living Magic Often Scotland Tropical Used Were Wet

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Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.

~Ann Cleeves

Topics: British Closer Country Different Edinburgh Feels Might Most Norway Our Part Place Remote Than Unique Very

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