you can breathe in the atmosphere and see how one of scotland's most damus writers once lived either they're going to try stella falkland's cleped at. edinburgh's literary scene is still lively today it's said that j.k. rowling of harry potter fame wrote the first book in a series looking out on edinburgh castle from this cafe table christine de luca comes here often to. i can see her sitting here writing. quite easily edinburgh is a very small city in many ways and a very intimate city and this is a city of many cities with lots of history and i think walking around you can be inspired to walk up to the castle down the royal mile and you see the old city. some say really modeled the wizarding school hold works on edinburgh castle. outside the city there are other sites that have inspired scottish author. walter scott's work immortalized the ruins of time talent castle.