Top 100 Quotes About Anthony Horowitz
#1. 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.
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#2. If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.
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#3. We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.
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#4. 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.
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#5. You weren't in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.
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#6. Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
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#7. 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?
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#8. I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.
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#10. 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.
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#12. The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.
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#13. 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.
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#14. Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
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#15. 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.
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#16. A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.
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#21. It seemed that there was nothing you could find here that was not expensive and very little that was actually necessary.
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#24. Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth. I can, however, offer you this comfort. Given time, they will wither and die of their own volition.
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#27. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#31. As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.
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#33. 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.
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#34. I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.
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#36. He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.
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#37. 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.
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#38. There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.
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#39. Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.
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#40. Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
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#41. Whoever this man was, he seemed to have less life than anyone in the cemetery. Above or below ground.
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#42. There was something wrong about the house in Eastfield Terrace. Something unpleasant.
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#43. Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!
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#45. 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.
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#47. Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#52. What were you going to do with it?" McCain asked.
"I just thought it might come in useful."
"Were you planning to attack me?"
"No. But that's a good idea.
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#53. It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world.
- Dr. Grief
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#54. I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
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#55. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.
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#59. You see the world this way because you're greedy and mad. People give to charity because they want to help.
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#60. 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.
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#61. There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.
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#62. If I were of a philosophical frame of mind I might wonder to what extent any one of us is in control of our own destiny, or if indeed we can ever predict the far-reaching consequences of actions which, at the time, may seem entirely trivial.
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#63. We're all on the road to ruin but some are further ahead than others.
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#64. Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.
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#65. And you think he'll tell?" Matt asked. "We will make him tell us." Han Shan-tung muttered the words casually, but there was something about the way he spoke that made the skin crawl.
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#70. 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.
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#71. We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.
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#72. I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
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#73. He had entered a veritable miasma of evil, and harm, in the worst possible way, was to come to us all too soon.
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#75. ... 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.
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#76. You must have been going very fast."
"I was, until I hit the fence.
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#78. 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?
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#79. If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.
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#81. Like many wealthy Americans, he was imbued with a sense of civic responsibility
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#82. You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.
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#84. Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?"
"Because they're talented.
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#85. My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
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#86. He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him ... everytime.
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#87. For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?
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#88. You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.
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#89. But I'm not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us. Fiction merely allows us a glimpse of the alternative. Maybe that's one of the reasons we enjoy it.
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#90. 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.
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#91. Dried the flowers myself. Belladonna, oleander, and mistletoe. Three of my favorites. All of them poisonous ... but such lovely colors.
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#92. 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.
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#93. 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!
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#94. I really don't know what to think, Mr Holmes,' Lestrade muttered. 'Well, that's nothing new.
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#96. It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.
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#97. 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.
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#98. I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed.
He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.
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#99. I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.
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#100. 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.
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