Quote by Winston Graham

“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

“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

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

— Filippo Bologna

“For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand.”

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“He had stopped drinking, but the need to be free had been just as great...”

— Stephen King

“He wasn't a happy drunk and when he'd had too much, his frustration spilled out of him in an angry torrent of false bravado.…

— Ed Duncan

“He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.”

— Terry Pratchett

“He’d never been much of a drinker. Never thought the during was much worth the after.”

— V.E. Schwab

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

— Mark Lawrence

“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

“As a child, Allan had been thought to be suspicious of people who didn't have a drink when the opportunity arose.”

— Jonasson, Jonas

“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