Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

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. But

was in his mid-thirties, with the easy confidence that comes from either inherited wealth or early success, a completely different man to the one I had met in Euston. Could it be that he changed his persona depending on the client he found himself with, that the richer and more established they were, the more suave and self-confident he became?

How it is the small lies and evasions which nobody sees or detects but which can come together and smother you like the fumes in a house fire.

Quite the opposite. I had to prop her up with her therapies and her health club and her yoga sessions and all the rest of it. After the honeymoon, she hardly ever let me into her bed and even on the honeymoon I had to chase her round the bloody ecolodge that she'd chosen in the middle of Mexico.

I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing so, I had ended up like a book: on the shelf.

And you know what they say. Choose yer wife with her nightcap on! You should take heed of that . .

paid for a wet weekend in Torquay! For all her airs and graces, it seems there isn't much of an audience for clinically depressed call girls surviving Hiroshima or weird Japanese poems that don't make any sense.

She was the woman who had been left £100,000 in Richard Pryce's will. So she was part of the triangle that included Pryce and Lockwood! That had to mean something.

This was a time when the Tories were losing power, and maybe there was a degree of resentment in what had always been a true-blue Tory shire. I don't know. My parents weren't just rich. There were plenty of rich people in Moxham. They were rich socialists. They supported the Labour opposition to hunting. They wanted to build a wind turbine, and you can imagine that that put a great many people's backs up.

The question sounded innocent but arrived like the twist of a knife.

Let's get divers into the river and into the sea." She gestured at the photographs. And we need to search here … the farm, the hills, everything!

All that was missing was the hookah and the belly dancers. Charles le Mesurier was sitting in

Bad Boys was nothing less than a complete travesty of the truth. It turned my parents into the villains of the piece.

The British Airways Airbus

they would have learned that this plane belonged to a photographic company based in Jamaica

The moon had risen over Tawleigh-on-the-Water but somehow the soft wash of the light only made the little harbour town seem all the darker.

Dear Minerva, You are a monster. I cannot foregive you for what you did in Tropojë last summer. How could you do that? I will never forget it and very soon I am going to kill you. Your life will come to an end in London. This will be your last Christmas!

separated from the cave by an inlet, the waves pounding

Modern life is a great tapestry, and if you wish to take control of it all, you must seize hold of every strand.

FOR EVER AND ALL ETERNITY.

Do we not learn in the church that evil has a physical presence, that we may feel it like a cold winter or a coming storm? "Deliver us from evil!" We say it every night.

That's the thing about books. They stay with you for life.

Everything had been beaten down and baked by the sun

Mrs Blakiston had always been in a hurry. It was impossible to escape the thought. She had quite literally flung herself down the stairs, hurrying into her own death.