Anthony Horowitz Quotes
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Anthony Horowitz Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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!
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
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.
The usual graffiti on the wall. JRH WAS HERE. NICK LOVES CASS. Visitors leaving the worst parts of themselves behind in fluorescent paint.
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.
"He got the wrong number," Alex said.
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.
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.
"I'd have been disappointed too.
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.
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.
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.
Dried the flowers myself. Belladonna, oleander, and mistletoe. Three of my favorites. All of them poisonous ... but such lovely colors.
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?
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?
"Is that including, or not including you?
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.
"Was that before or after the First World War?" Matt asked.
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 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.
... 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.
"I've never much cared for horror stories.
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.
"He's mexican" Troy added.
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 had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.
For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?
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.
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.