Anthony Horowitz Quotes

Separated from the cave by an inlet, the waves pounding ~ Anthony Horowitz

go? We argued. I told him it was a fait accompli. ~ Anthony Horowitz

By any rights, he should be dead. He was involved in an explosion with a bomb, which he happened to be carrying at the time. Conrad is something of a scientific miracle. There are more than thirty metal pins in his body. He has a metal plate in his skull. There are metal wires in his jaw and in most of his major joints."
"He must set off a lot of airport alarms," Alex muttered. ~ Anthony Horowitz

You must not be weak! ~ Anthony Horowitz

Dried the flowers myself. Belladonna, oleander, and mistletoe. Three of my favorites. All of them poisonous ... but such lovely colors. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date. ~ Anthony Horowitz

The house is seventies modern with sliding windows, gas-effect and a giant TV in the living room. There are almost no books. I'm not making any judgement. It's just the sort of thing I can't help but notice. ~ Anthony Horowitz

of those clothes. ~ Anthony Horowitz

You think ghosts and witches and vampires and ghosts and two-headed monsters are bad. Why? Do you know what that is, David? It's prejudice. Racial prejudice! ~ Anthony Horowitz

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Content and only his death would suffice. The metal key that ~ Anthony Horowitz

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. ~ Anthony Horowitz

My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk. ~ Anthony Horowitz

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see? ~ Anthony Horowitz

You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.'
'Are you saying I have no choice?'
'We all have choices. But our decisions are already known. ~ Anthony Horowitz

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible. ~ Anthony Horowitz

The usual graffiti on the wall. JRH WAS HERE. NICK LOVES CASS. Visitors leaving the worst parts of themselves behind in fluorescent paint. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right. ~ Anthony Horowitz

We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser. ~ Anthony Horowitz

We only see what we want to see. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?"
"Because they're talented. ~ Anthony Horowitz

If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents. ~ Anthony Horowitz

When I was young, a child never asked questions of his elders," Claire Deverill said.
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child. ~ Anthony Horowitz

He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. "I suppose none of this means very much to you."
"Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. "I was only two years old. ~ Anthony Horowitz

He had a particular liking for olde England, especially if the olde was spelled with an e. He found things like croquet, cream teas and cricket both incomprehensible and irresistible and he would have been in his element here. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Alex decided he'd had enough. He put down his knife. "All right," he said. "You've made it pretty clear that you don't want to work with me. Well, that's fine. Because I don't want to work with you either. And for what it's worth, nobody would ever believe you were my mom because no mom would ever behave like you."
"Alex ... ," Carver began.
"Forget it! I'm going back to London. And if you're Mr. Byrne asks why, you can tell him I didn't like the jelly, so I went home to get some jam. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me. ~ Anthony Horowitz

We're all on the road to ruin but some are further ahead than others. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Abbiatico and Salvinelli," he said. "It cost me thirty grand - or my mother, anyway. ~ Anthony Horowitz

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked.
"He got the wrong number," Alex said. ~ Anthony Horowitz

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It is far away and barely audible - but there it is! A pizzicato. Then a tremelo. The style is unmistakable. It is Sherlock Holmes who is playing. It must be. I hope with all my heart that he is playing for me ... ~ Anthony Horowitz

You must control your emotions. You must control your feelings. If there is any fear or insecurity, you must destroy it before it destroys you. It is not the size or the strength of your opponent that matters. These can be measured. It is what cannot be measured ... courage, determination ... that count. ~ Anthony Horowitz

We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time."
"I'm not really all that interested," Alex said. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I don't really like the word 'hobbies.' ~ Anthony Horowitz

On some nights I take a little laudanum and a few months ago Mrs Abernetty recommended pillows stuffed with camel hair. She was absolutely right. ~ Anthony Horowitz

... my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me ... "
"I've never much cared for horror stories. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Fraser had the immediate thought that his was a man whom it would be easy to dislike. He did not just arouse antipathy; he almost seemed to cultivate it. ~ Anthony Horowitz

You must have been going very fast."
"I was, until I hit the fence. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place for us to hide. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Hawthorne certainly had a magnetic personality. Although, of course, magnets can repel as well as attract. ~ Anthony Horowitz

With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum! ~ Anthony Horowitz

I held out the packet and suddenly we were friends. That's one of the only good things about being a smoker these days. You're part of a persecuted minority. You bond easily. ~ Anthony Horowitz

The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock. ~ Anthony Horowitz

You see the world this way because you're greedy and mad. People give to charity because they want to help. ~ Anthony Horowitz

No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse. ~ Anthony Horowitz

You don't want to be hanging around this village. You don't want to be anywhere near here. Do you understand me? I shouldn't be talking to you like this. But if you know what's good for you, you'll get away. You'll go as far away as you can and you won't come back. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Pünd remembered their first case together when Fraser had failed to notice that his travelling companion, on the three-fifty train from Paddington, was actually dead. ~ Anthony Horowitz

There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are. ~ Anthony Horowitz

We have four blocks here. Block A, where we are now, is administration and recreation. Block B is software development. Block C is research and storage. Block D is where the main Stormbreaker assembly line is found." "Where's breakfast?" Alex asked. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household. ~ Anthony Horowitz

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I had received an answer to the question that Holmes had put to me. Now all I needed to know was why I had asked it. ~ Anthony Horowitz

We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go. ~ Anthony Horowitz

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!"
"Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight."
"What?"
"I set fire to the boat."
"But we're on the boat!"
"I know. ~ Anthony Horowitz

When are you at your most defenseless? ~ Anthony Horowitz

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.
That's why they become politicians. ~ Anthony Horowitz

It seemed that there was nothing you could find here that was not expensive and very little that was actually necessary. ~ Anthony Horowitz

There was something wrong about the house in Eastfield Terrace. Something unpleasant. ~ Anthony Horowitz

You like to think with young adults that with your books, a little part of it has reached them and will stay with them. It is great to be part of an eight-year-old's world. ~ Anthony Horowitz

You'd better get onto MI6. They'll be in charge of security at the airport."
"Of course." Sir Graham moved toward the door. He stopped and turned around. "And what happens if you're wrong?" he inquired. "What happens if these soccer players do somehow get killed?"
Kellner shrugged. "At least we'll know what we're dealing with," he said. "And they lost every single one of their games while they were in Nigeria. I'm sure we can put together another team. ~ Anthony Horowitz

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed."
"I'd have been disappointed too. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Do you realise how much trouble you're in?"
"Perhaps I'll have some Weetabix after all. ~ Anthony Horowitz

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents. ~ Anthony Horowitz

You're never too young to die. ~ Anthony Horowitz

When the doorbell rings at three o'clock in the morning its never good news ~ Anthony Horowitz

He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him ... everytime. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You're not going to tell me you're afraid of a little prick?"
"I wouldn't call you that ... ~ Anthony Horowitz

I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. ~ Anthony Horowitz

It's funny how things work out sometimes. ~ Anthony Horowitz

You'd have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I'd have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one. ~ Anthony Horowitz

You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film.
"Alex Gardiner," Alex said.
"Your real name?"
"I just told you."
"You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider."
"Why ask if you think you know? ~ Anthony Horowitz

Alex felt the bullets pass over his shoulder and heard a scream as one of the other guards was hit. Well, that made one less anyway! ~ Anthony Horowitz

Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work."
"He's mexican" Troy added. ~ Anthony Horowitz

When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Bond had left his ammunition back at the motel but he had his gun and his wallet which, he decided, was all you really needed to get by in America. ~ Anthony Horowitz

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world.
- Dr. Grief ~ Anthony Horowitz

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Like many wealthy Americans, he was imbued with a sense of civic responsibility ~ Anthony Horowitz

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now. ~ Anthony Horowitz

It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead. ~ Anthony Horowitz

In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used. ~ Anthony Horowitz

It sometimes seemed to Alex that the whole universe was against him. Getting away from FLamingo Bay had almost killed him. It had been an exhausting struggle against time, the elements, and Drevin's firepower.
And now he was going back.
It was the CIA agent, Ed Shulsky, who had made it happen.
Alex, you know the place. I need you to tell me where they're holding Tamara. You can give me a layout of the island. Anyway, we don't have much time. You saw for yourself. The rocket is on its way, and if what you've told me is true-"
It is." Alex felt a spurt of annoyance. Why should the American doubt, even for a moment, what he said? Was it perhaps because he was only fourteen?
Shulsky noticed his reaction. "I'm sorry. That was out of line. But this plan of his, Ark Angel...Washington..." He shook his head. "It's beyond anything we could have imagined. And that's why we have to take him out. Right now. We don't have time to drop you off."
But you're too late," Alex argued. "Gabriel 7 has gone. What are going to do? Shoot it down? ~ Anthony Horowitz

You have to take responsibility for who you are ~ Anthony Horowitz

You can kiss me if you like," she said.
Alex let go of her and turned away. "Thanks, Fiona," he said. "But frankly I'd prefer to kiss the horse. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Alan Blunt got in touch with me and asked me to put you up here for the rest of the week, to pretend that you're my son. I have to say, you don't look anything like me."
"I don't look anything like myself either," Alex said. ~ Anthony Horowitz

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship. ~ Anthony Horowitz

I had chosen to play the detective - and if there is one thing that unites all the detectives I've ever read about, it's their inherent loneliness. The suspects know each other. They may well be family or friends. But the detective is always the outsider. He asks the necessary questions but he doesn't actually form a relationship with anyone. He doesn't trust them, and they in turn are afraid of him. It's a relationship based entirely on deception and it's one that, ultimately, goes nowhere. Once the killer has been identified, the detective leaves and is never seen again. In fact, everyone is glad to see the back of him. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian. ~ Anthony Horowitz

There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two. ~ Anthony Horowitz