Top 100 Anthony Horowitz Quotes
#1. ... 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
#3. We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.
Anthony Horowitz
#4. 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.
Anthony Horowitz
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.
Anthony Horowitz
#8. 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
#9. Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.
Anthony Horowitz
#10. 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.
Anthony Horowitz
#11. It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world.
- Dr. Grief
Anthony Horowitz
#12. Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.
Anthony Horowitz
#13. I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
Anthony Horowitz
#14. I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed.
He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.
Anthony Horowitz
#15. I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.
Anthony Horowitz
#16. 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
#17. Fangio had once said: 'You should never think of a car as a piece of metal. It's a living being with a heart that beats. It can feel happy or sad. It all depends on how you treat it.
Anthony Horowitz
#18. Dried the flowers myself. Belladonna, oleander, and mistletoe. Three of my favorites. All of them poisonous ... but such lovely colors.
Anthony Horowitz
#19. 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
#20. For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?
Anthony Horowitz
#21. He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him ... everytime.
Anthony Horowitz
#22. My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
Anthony Horowitz
#24. You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.
Anthony Horowitz
#25. If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.
Anthony Horowitz
#26. 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
#29. 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
#31. It has always struck me that any interpretation of a series of events is possible until all the evidence says otherwise and even then one should be wary before jumping to a conclusion.
Anthony Horowitz
#32. 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.
Anthony Horowitz
#33. The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.
Anthony Horowitz
#35. How could you not wish to see what tomorrow brings? How could you not want to feel the warmth of the sun on your skin, to eat ice cream in the Piazza Navona, to watch the children throwing coins into the fountain?
Anthony Horowitz
#36. 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
#37. Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
Anthony Horowitz
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.
Anthony Horowitz
#41. 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
#42. Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!
Anthony Horowitz
#43. Whoever this man was, he seemed to have less life than anyone in the cemetery. Above or below ground.
Anthony Horowitz
#45. There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.
Anthony Horowitz
#46. My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.
Anthony Horowitz
#47. I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.
Anthony Horowitz
#49. No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of society and, particularly at a time of war, this is something I cannot risk.
Anthony Horowitz
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. If they find me, they will kill me. But my life is not in question here. You are all that matters.
Anthony Horowitz
#54. I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.
Anthony Horowitz
#55. We live in an age when there is no room for the impossible.
Anthony Horowitz
#56. 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
#57. Come join me for some tea so we can discuss how your giong to die
Anthony Horowitz
#61. You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.
Anthony Horowitz
#62. If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.
Anthony Horowitz
#63. It was the week before my sixteenth birthday when the boy fell out of the door.
Is that a good start?
Anthony Horowitz
#65. Their proof-reader tried to kill herself. She shot herself with a gun.
Anthony Horowitz
#66. 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.
Anthony Horowitz
#67. 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
#68. He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body ... unfortunately he had run out of room.
Anthony Horowitz
#69. 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
#70. 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.
Anthony Horowitz
#71. 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
#72. Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.
Anthony Horowitz
#73. You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.
Anthony Horowitz
#75. 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.
Anthony Horowitz
#76. 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
#78. My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.
Anthony Horowitz
#79. Content and only his death would suffice. The metal key that
Anthony Horowitz
#80. 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!
Anthony Horowitz
#81. 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?
Anthony Horowitz
#82. It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.
Anthony Horowitz
#84. If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.
Anthony Horowitz
#86. 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.
Anthony Horowitz
#87. 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.
Anthony Horowitz
#89. 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.
Anthony Horowitz
#90. There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when even though your destination is concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that lies just ahead of you, there it will be.
Anthony Horowitz
#91. My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
Anthony Horowitz
#92. Himself almost being torn in half as he was yanked out of the jeep on the end of the cord. In seconds he was forty, fifty yards above the runway, dangling underneath
Anthony Horowitz
#94. Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.
Anthony Horowitz
#95. McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.
Anthony Horowitz
#96. You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.
Anthony Horowitz
#97. You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.
Anthony Horowitz
#98. The few questions I had asked had been futile and I was suddenly dispirited, for it had occurred to me that had Holmes been present, he would have probably have solved the entire mystery by now.
Anthony Horowitz
#99. 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
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
