Quote by Colin Bateman

If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know…

— Colin Bateman

“Serial Killer Week got off to an inauspicious start when the opening wine and bean evening was invaded by a former prisoner who misinterpreted…

— Colin Bateman

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”

— Colin Bateman

“Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You also keep…

— Colin Bateman

“Coffee is coffee to me, I don't mind what country it comes from, who picks it or under what conditions, and I really don't…

— Colin Bateman

“Also, I have a mornid fear of rates, and mice, and nettles and wasps and jagged cans and rotting food and damp newspapers and…

— Colin Bateman

“He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed…

— Colin Bateman

“Anything with the word 'Tesco' or 'Weight Watchers' on the label should be viewed with some suspicion.”

— Colin Bateman

“By pressing our faces against the wire we could clearly see, nestling amongst torn bin liners, a red-splashed pot of discarded paint. I immediately…

— Colin Bateman

“I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the…

— Colin Bateman

“Alison was snoring gently, and I was thinking about what would happen if I pinched her nose. And covered her mouth. The head is…

— Colin Bateman