Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

I don't know how anyone can tell them apart. They even wear the same clothes all the time, which is a bit creepy.

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.

Much later that night, I thought the door opened and a man came into the bedroom. He was leaning on a stick. He didn't say anything but he stood there, looking sadly at Andreas and me, and as a shaft of moonlight came slanting in through the window, I recognized Atticus Pünd. I was asleep, of course, and dreaming, but I remember wondering how he had managed to enter my world before the thought occurred to me that maybe it was I who had entered his.

Almost two hundred thousand books are published in the UK every year and although some of them will have the advantage of a well-known author attached, the vast majority have just two or three words on a surface measuring no more than six by nine inches to sell themselves. Titles have to be short, smart and meaningful, easy to read, easy to remember and original. That's asking a lot.

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

When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. Alex Rider was woken by the first chime. His eyes flickered open, but for a moment he stayed completely still in his bed, lying on his back with his head resting on the pillow.

Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?

Well,' I tried, 'I suppose it's the thought that counts.' 'Yes. He thought we wouldn't notice he's a complete cheapskate

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

But in the space of one minute he had told Colin Matheson more than he had ever told me. I had never known his age, for example. And I had written that he had spent ten years as a detective, not eleven. Why was Hawthorne answering these questions so readily in front of an audience in an Alderney cinema when with me he'd always been so guarded about his private life?

Everything has a relevance,' remarked Holmes.

We were like two actors in a play, reciting lines that had been written by someone else. He gave me a peck on the cheek and then — exit stage right — I went upstairs on my own.

To enjoy something fully, you had to own it. And if you couldn't buy it, then you would have to steal it.

A novel is a container for 80,000 to 90,000 words and you might see it as a jelly mould. You pour them all in and hope they'll set.

It would upset me to have to be discourteous to you, so I would be obliged if you did not communicate with me again except, of course, in the most urgent circumstances. I wish you a good evening.' It

It was the reference to Down's syndrome that most upset him. Mary described it as an 'awful sickness'. It wasn't. It was a condition, not an illness. What sort of woman could see it as a threat to her own bloodline? Had she really pulled up the drawbridge on her son's marriage simply to protect future grandchildren from

I've often been quite tempted to write a book." "You could have the launch party back in jail.

I'm not going to get any

In a way, I think I am writing this for Leo. I have decided to keep a record of my life because I suspect my life will be short. I do not particularly want to be remembered. After all, being unknown has been essential to my work. But I sometimes think of him and I would like him to understand what it was that made me what I am.

And here, out in the darkness, identical twins were stalking each other, one of them with murder on his mind.

It shouldn't be too hard to spot," Daniels said. "It's bloody huge. And if it goes bang, you'll hear it ten miles away.

Given that Alderney isn't exactly a whirl of social activity, I'm assuming you weren't invited.

I warned you that danger can become a drug and it seems to me that in your case, it's too late. You're already hooked.

He saved my life. In a way, I loved him. I love you too, Alex. You are so very much like him. I'm glad that you're here with me now.