Morse Quote by Colin Dexter

“He hadn’t imagined a world in which one hundred percent of the people he investigated were up to no good.”

— Bella Andre

“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a…

— William Faulkner

“In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.”

— Terry Pratchett

“...As with many American conversations, the words he spoke had not conveyed what he had intended by them. He could never decide if it…

— Laila Halaby

“He simply could not write a further word. Writer’s block, he thought. It happens to the most brilliant of writers.”

— Sharon Maas

“He spoke in incomplete sentences, as though he had so much he wanted to say that he needed to leave out some of the…

— Diane Chamberlain

“I was offended by his suspicion that any of us would ever write about such sensitive matters.”

— Robert M. Gates

“Like many people who have nothing to do, he was very resentful of any claims on his time.”

— William S. Burroughs

“That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for…

— Frank McCourt

“He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn't shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of his family.…

— Terry Pratchett

“This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in…

— Louis Zukofsky

“No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.”

— Anthony Liccione