I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

- Colin Dexter

For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. B…

- Colin Dexter

There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse

- Colin Dexter

Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on bette…

- Colin Dexter

We read so much about incompetence and corruption in all sorts of places. I'm not just thinking of the United Kingdom and the United States. Almost e…

- Colin Dexter

There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India until recently…

- Colin Dexter

I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.

- Colin Dexter

I've not much faith in the future of the planet and I'm not just thinking about Mr. Bush or global warming. I feel that we've lost our way and it loo…

- Colin Dexter

I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The business of getting going, getting …

- Colin Dexter