Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

I've watched every episode of Poirot and Midsomer Murders on TV. I never guess the ending and I can't wait for the moment when the detective gathers all the suspects in the room and, like a magician conjuring silk scarves out of the air, makes the whole thing make sense.

McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

I let go and dropped on all fours... as quiet as a cat. Actually I landed on a cat. It screeched and howled then shot away. So much for stealth!

There are some relationships that succeed only because they are impossible, that actually need unhappiness to continue.

You must do what you want.

But the thing is, you see -and to be honest, I don't like to mention this- I'm a bit short. There just aren't enough people getting murdered.

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.

They can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

He used language as a place for us to hide.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

That's why life is so different to fiction. Every day is a single page and you have no chance to thumb forward and see what lies ahead.

There are two worlds. The world you understand and the world you don't. These worlds exist side by side, sometimes only centimeters apart, and the great majority of people spend their entire lives in one without being aware of the other. It's like living in one side of a mirror: you think there is nothing on the other side until one day a switch is thrown and suddenly the mirror is transparent. You see the other side.

Again, I found myself wondering what it must be like to work there, sitting in a room with those miniature urns, a constant reminder that everything you were and everything you'd achieved would one day fit inside.

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.

If they find me, they will kill me. But my life is not in question here. You are all that matters.

You must control your emotions. You must control your feelings. If there is any fear or insecurity, you must destroy it before it destroys you. It is not the size or the strength of your opponent that matters. These can be measured. It is what cannot be measured...courage, determination...that count.

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.

These had been his plans. But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

the usual graffiti on the wall. JRH WAS HERE. NICK LOVES CASS. Visitors leaving the worst parts of themselves behind in fluorescent paint.

There were books everywhere, hundreds of them on shelves that had been designed to fit into every nook and cranny, and it goes without saying that anyone who collects books can't be all bad.

Life may imitate art – but it usually falls short of it.

I really don't know what to think, Mr Holmes,' Lestrade muttered. 'Well, that's nothing new.

It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

There are, I think, occasions when you know that you have arrived at the end of a long journey, when, even though your destination is still concealed from sight, you are somehow aware that when you turn the corner that lies just ahead of you, there it will be.