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What happened?" he demanded. ...

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!" "Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight." "What?" "I set fire to the boat." "But we're on the boat!" "I know.

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A children's author on a soap...

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

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With every year that passes, ...

With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

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I feel very privileged to hav...

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

Anthony Horowitz 111 quotes

I didn't really have a favour...

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

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It is, of course, traditional...

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

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I vividly remember being 14. ...

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

Anthony Horowitz 111 quotes

If you are going to be a writ...

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.

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There's something very strang...

There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.

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I believe that, by and large,...

I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.

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Inside every fat man, there's...

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

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Statues lined the stairs and ...

Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.

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You're trying to tell me that...

You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.

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McCain might have suffered ha...

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.

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You're my closest friend and ...

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

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So it's a coincidence. Just l...

So it's a coincidence. Just like you said. Two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. They're both killed in accidents. Why are you so interested?" "Because I don't like coincidence," Blunt replied. "In fact, I don't believe in coincidence. Where some people see coincidence, I see conspiracy. That's my job.

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There's a name for people wit...

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

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The school even had a Latin m...

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

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I fear dying in the middle of...

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.

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Freedom of speech is a fundam...

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....