„Edinburgh is the world’s top literary city. Some of the world’s most famous and well-loved authors have
either lived or been inspired here. The evidence is all around you. From railway station and football
team names taken from novels to the world’s largest monument to an author, Edinburgh’s literary
heritage courses like a life force through every street and close.“

“For those who like that sort of thing,“ said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, „That is the sort of thing they like.”
from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

„Es ist sofort klar, dass du etwas Besonderes bietest, und ich bin immer bereit, deinen Itineraries zu folgen!“

„I owe a great debt to Robert Louis Stevenson and to the city of his birth. In a way they both changed my life. Without Edinburgh’s split nature Stevenson might never have dreamed up Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and without Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde I might never have come up with my own alter ego Detective Inspector John Rebus“.

„This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.“