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I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

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

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

I love writing different things.

Their proof-reader tried to kill herself. She shot herself with a gun.

I really don't know what to think, Mr Holmes,' Lestrade muttered. 'Well, that's nothing new.

I let go and dropped on all fours ... as quiet as a cat. Actually I landed on a cat. It screeched and howled then shot away. So much for stealth!

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

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

You must not be weak!

When are you at your most defenseless?

You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body ... unfortunately he had run out of room.

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

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

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

He died fighting for what he believed in.

We only see what we want to see.

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

Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

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.

You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

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

You've already said you were going to kill me," Alex said, "but I didn't think that meant you were going to bore me to death.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed.
He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.

If they find me, they will kill me. But my life is not in question here. You are all that matters.

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.

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

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

Death is the same for the one who dies.

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

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

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

Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative.

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.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

Some things can't be changed. They'll always happen the way they were supposed to.

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

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

We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.

When you are rich, people treat you with respect.

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

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.

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?

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?"
"Is that including, or not including you?

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

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.

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

Then why don't you go and ---- yourself.

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.

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 ...

I tried to get a job in a freak show," he [Gregor] went on, "but they said I was overqualified. So I became the porter at Groosham Grange.

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.

One car behind him. Two more ahead. The plane was now in

You weren't in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.

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

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

... 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.

The world was healing itself.

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.

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

You're nothing if you're not special.

Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.

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.

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

Separated from the cave by an inlet, the waves pounding

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

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

Come join me for some tea so we can discuss how your giong to die

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

He had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.

Nice day for a funeral.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

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

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

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

I'm not good at the modern world.

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.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

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.

It was the garden of a man who wanted to rule the world but couldn't, and so had cut the world down to his own size.

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

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

I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'

We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.

How many spelling misteaks are their in this sentence?

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

If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.

It was the week before my sixteenth birthday when the boy fell out of the door.
Is that a good start?