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Colin Dexter

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Colin Dexter

Colin Dexter

“I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.”

“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 started, is enormously important, and this can be physical. Solvitur Ambulando as the Romans used to say, which means the solution comes through walking.”

“I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.”

“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. Beginning is one half of the deed.”

“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 better when we've got a body - a body that died from unnatural causes. That's all I ask. And we haven't got a body”

More about Colin Dexter

The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
The Riddle of the Third Mile
The Secret of Annexe 3: An Inspector Morse Mystery
Last Seen Wearing
The Wench is Dead
The Jewel That Was Ours
The Way Through the Woods (Inspector Morse)
Service of All the Dead
The Daughters of Cain
Last Bus to Woodstock
Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse Mysteries)
Death Is Now My Neighbor (Inspector Morse)
The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse Mysteries)

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Jane Austen

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Gustave Flaubert

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George R.R. Martin

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