Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

It would be nice to think that I could get to the end of a third outing with some of my reputation still intact.

Pünd had never seen murder as a game, not even as a puzzle to be solved. His work was an examination of humanity at its darkest and most desperate. You could not solve crime unless you understood its genesis.

Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth.

The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

And she had just signed a major deal with Walt Disney, including a strict morality clause that, almost certainly, prohibited the act of murder.

It's always about blame, isn't it? These things happen and you have to find some way to make them make sense.

It was true that she looked too ordinary, too vulnerable to be a psychopathic killer, but then, from what I'd read, most psychopathic killers are just like that. It's why they're so hard to catch.

The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus PÅ«nd]

You'd have thought he would have an opinion about something – the weather, the government, the earthquake in Fukushima, the marriage of Prince William. But he never talked about anything except the matter in hand.

What Abbott represented was completely at odds with everything I would enjoy writing about: blue telephone boxes, beaches and fortifications, seagulls, miniature steak and kidney puddings, ginger-haired taxi drivers.

In fact, Fraser had often heard the detective remark that there was no such thing as a coincidence. There was a chapter in The Landscape of Criminal Investigation where he had expressed the belief that everything in life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.

Another lie in a life that had been nothing but lies.

I want to be buried in a cardboard coffin.

There was always a faint possibility that a supplier might actually arrive on time but it would never be with the goods that we had actually ordered.

That's how it is with the modern police these days. They've made so many cutbacks, there's no-one left to do the job.

Just remember,Alex Rider,you're never too young to die.

Whodunnits are all about truth: nothing more, nothing less. In a world full of uncertainties, is it not inherently satisfying to come to the last page with every i dotted and every t crossed? The stories mimic our experience in the world. We are surrounded by tensions and ambiguities, which we spend half our life trying to resolve, and we'll probably be on our own deathbed when we reach that moment when everything

We had managed to drift into that awful arena, so familiar to the long-term married couple, where what was left unspoken was actually more damaging than what was said.

If the laws of physics worked, he would make it across. If they didn't, he would die. It was as simple as that.

That's top secret." Mrs. Jones gestured with one hand. "But I'll tell you anyway.

Alex knew he was in danger the same way an animal does. There was no need to ask why or how. Danger was simply there.

Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander –

But although it may not have occurred to you, everything that happens on this island is connected. My grandfather planted that lawn and four generations have been looking after it, keeping it perfect – not just for our pleasure but for everyone who passes.

There are some people who argue that we are too sensitive these days, that because we're so afraid of causing offence, we no longer engage in any serious sort of argument at all. But that's how it is. It's why political chat-shows on television have become so very boring.