Anthony Horowitz

Novelist

1955-04-05

Anthony Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter known for crime and young-adult fiction, including the Alex Rider series. He has also written extensively for television and mystery franchises.

Books by Anthony Horowitz

Stormbreaker
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Point Blanc
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Snakehead
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Quotes by Anthony Horowitz

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.
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Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.
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You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.
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The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape, she explained. She was crushed.I'd have been disappointed too.
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I didn't set fire to the building.No, but you did pull it into the river.That put the fire out!
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You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.
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The house is seventies modern with sliding windows, gas-effect and a giant TV in the living room. There are almost no books. I'm not making any judgement. It's just the sort of thing I can't help but notice.
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She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.
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When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.
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All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?
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I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You're not going to tell me you're afraid of a little prick?I wouldn't call you that...
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Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?Is that including, or not including you?
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You must have been going very fast.I was, until I hit the fence.
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Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.
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The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape, she explained. She was crushed.I'd have been disappointed too.
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I didn't set fire to the building.No, but you did pull it into the river.That put the fire out!
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Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.
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She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.
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You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.
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You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.
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