Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

Atticus Pünd had often said that there were no coincidences when you were investigating a crime. 'Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when that pattern becomes briefly visible.

The trouble with this place is that everyone is super-sensitive and you can all too easily get accused of favouritism. I'm just telling you the facts. He was very ambitious. He'd have stabbed his own mother if it would help him to get cast.

The houses round here don't have numbers. They're too fucking posh for that.

He knew what he was doing. So I never understood how he could have been so bloody stupid. The simple fact of the matter is that there was no reason for him to die.

I didn't like him. He had a way of manipulating people which I thought was a little creepy and then there was that business in Deal.

That's what's wrong with this country. You've got food banks in the north and down here in Hampstead there are people who don't think twice about spending a fortune on a fucking bottle of wine. It doesn't make sense.

seemed to be a remarkably up-beat interpretation of such an act of vandalism. Her

one shindig to the next. I've often wondered how I would have managed if I'd been born with a stammer or chronic shyness. The modern writer has to be able to perform, often to a huge audience. It's almost like being a stand-up comedian except that the questions never change and you always end up telling the same jokes. Whether it's crime in Harrogate

every fibre of his being – physically

You can hold it right there,' I said. 'I've already told you. You can't talk about people's sexuality like that. I'm not having it and I'm not putting it in the book.' 'You can put what

know I shouldn't say it in this day and age but I'm absolutely useless without a man. There isn't a moment I don't miss Charlie. I never get anything right. I can't work out the buttons on the TV remote control. Parking the car is a nightmare even though it's only a Toyota Prius and it isn't that big.

there could be no doubt of that. They were betting on how long a fighter could last against him.

garden where they used to live. She can't trust anyone. Raymond Clunes has just ripped her off. Her beloved son has pissed off and gone to America. She's got so few friends that after she was killed it took two whole days for anyone to notice she was dead and even then it was only the cleaner. It struck me from the start that she must have been pretty bloody miserable. And that's why she was thinking of doing herself in …

There was a simmering hostility between them even now. Hawthorne was homophobic. It was his least endearing trait. I'm sure Spencer had picked up on it.

He was just going to have to cheat.

Great to meet you, Alex," he exclaimed. He smacked Alex on the shoulder. "Good to have you on the team!" Belinda Troy had said nothing.

closed my eyes, quietly adding casual racism to the charge sheet against Hawthorne

the 'c' word is more than that. It's used by sour, frustrated men, nearly always about women. It's a word full of misogyny – crudely offensive.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The word is murder.

The glass shattered but the bullet hadn't passed through and at the same time Bond was diving to one side, his left hand scrabbling for the gun. He grabbed it and now, protected by the lower half of the door, he twisted round and dived down.

What do you mean by that?' Hawthorne looked genuinely sympathetic and sounded so interested that even Akira was taken by surprise. That was another of his tricks. He had a way of getting people to tell him perhaps more than they intended

Two women, one a writer, the other a publisher, had both come up against the same lawyer. At least one of them had been trashed by him and had threatened to kill him. And now the other one was providing an alibi for her.