scotlit, “What I hadn’t anticipated in becoming an expat, the icing on the cake, was that living as an outsider in Scotland gave me a unique slant on Scottish life. I will never be able to express the views of a born-and-bred Scot, but I soon learned the advantages to being a foreigner here. […] I am a hybrid — and my sense of national identity is quite blurred most of the time.”
—Cynthia Rogerson on writing as an outsider