Quote by Donal Ryan

“He was drunk, but this was something he’d thought about for a long time and needed no sobriety to express—just a listener.”

— Olen Steinhauer

“I wondered if he was drunk. That's when I tended to speak profundities to the night.”

— Mark Lawrence

“He felt righteous and unashamed. He decided to go to bed sober.”

— Winston Graham

“Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks in secret?…

— Irvine Welsh

“Damn, he was bored. It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting…

— Joe Abercrombie

“He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had…

— Allan Dare Pearce

“He wasn't drunk on liquor, just drunk on what he liked - crowds of people milling.”

— Jack Kerouac

“enough to qualify him as being drunk, and never so much that he couldn’t remember what he did the next morning.  And yet here…

— Brian Harmon

“Suddenly he fell asleep in the candlelight. After a while I got up to look at his face. He slept like everybody else. He…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“He was seething, drunk on his own magnificence”

— Lara Adrian

“She was certainly rather drunk. Her eyes were fixed as if upon some far-off point. She seemed to be contemplating a future at once…

— Jean Rhys

“He was so drunk that he would have stubbornly denied that he was.”

— Filippo Bologna