Anthony Horowitz Quotes

"I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding."

You're never too young to die.

When are you at your most defenseless?

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.

He died fighting for what he believed in.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

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

Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.

You must do what you want.

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

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.

Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer..." "Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

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

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

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

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

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

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

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

My favorite 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.

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.

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

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.

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

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.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

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.

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

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.

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

I have a couple of questions," he said. "Do, please, go ahead." "My first one is for Yassen Gregorovich." He turned to the Russian. "Why are you working for this lunatic?" "I sometimes think that I was richer when I was eight years old than most people will be in their lifetime!" "Do we have to listen to this?" Alex asked.

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

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it.

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

I love writing different things.

Nice day for a funeral.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

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

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?

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.