The Twist of a Knife Quotes

“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.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“Moxham was strikingly beautiful, the sort of place that turns up in jigsaw puzzles or Harry Potter films.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“Theatre, at its best, is a candle that never goes out and all of these productions, along with many more, still burn in my memory.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“You can call it that if you like, but what was I to do? I was desperate. I would have had to move out. I had no job, no income, nowhere to go. Philip was in the cemetery and nobody cared about me.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“You know the trouble with this part of the world? It’s full of retired bankers and lawyers with too much time on their hands.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“Oh, and since the state received a thousand dollars in federal funds for every child taken into custody, it was a nice little earner”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“Well,’ I tried, ‘I suppose it’s the thought that counts.’ ‘Yes. He thought we wouldn’t notice he’s a complete cheapskate”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“don’t like walking three steps behind you like the murder-mystery equivalent of the Duke of Edinburgh.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“front of the desk is Mark Styler, a writer in his early”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“We’ve already agreed that I can’t write about Ahmet or Pranav. So presumably I can’t write about Maureen or Sky either . . . because they’re both women! Or Lucky because he’s a dog! At the end of the day, if I listened to you, I’d only write about myself! A book full of middle-aged white writers describing middle-aged white writers being murdered by middle-aged white writers!”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“I never believe everything anyone says.’
‘Including me?’
He smiled. ‘Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“His choice of books was too diverse to tell me anything: literary fiction, thrillers, classics… everything from Dan Brown to Dostoyevsky.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“It was as if he had recognised how few pleasures he had in his life, making him all the more determined to cling on to the few that remained. Murder and cigarettes. That about summed him up.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“Ambition, madam, is a great man’s madness,’ says Antonio in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, a play I first saw at the RSC in 1971 with Judi Dench in the title role. But it’s accepting that you will never achieve your ambition that can really drive you mad.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own...”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“The Jai Mahal near the St Nicholas Market. It was quite popular, particularly among Bristol students, but the health and safety mob had been in a couple of times and they weren’t impressed at all. Our food critic called it the Die Mahal.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“think there was a part of her that was attracted to people who kill.’ ‘She admired them?”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“There was something deeply offensive about turning a tiny incident, a tragedy in an English village, into some sort of Mills & Boon morality tale, and reading it, I felt less bad about her review of Mindgame.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“Ironic, isn’t it! A group of socialists who had espoused the values of New Labour and who were loudly beating the drum for equality of opportunity and education were ready to pile onto a working-class kid who’d never had one-tenth of the privilege of their own son.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“Oliver Twist had found his Artful Dodger … in this instance, a young lout who had been born, quite literally, into a life of crime – slumbering in a pram that had been stolen from John Lewis. Wayne must have thought he had struck gold when he first set foot in Moxham Hall.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“Bad Boys was nothing less than a complete travesty of the truth. It turned my parents into the villains of the piece.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“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.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“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?”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“Murder and cigarettes. That about summed him up.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“You write about me and I will make sure that all hell comes in your direction. I have my life. I have my experiences. And you have no right at all to appropriate my story, turn me into a cultural stereotype, simply to embellish your own view of the world.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“He had been responsible for her injuries and, subsequently, he had left his wife for her. I didn’t know what to say.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“wish Sky had never told us she had the review. I don’t know what she was thinking, anyway. She could have at least read it first.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife

“warned him against your play. I said that it was too peculiar for a modern audience and that nobody would understand what you were trying to get at. Is it a comedy? Is it a thriller? What is it, exactly? But he had complete faith in you, and now you turn up with your detective friend and cast aspersions on a man who is absolutely blameless and wouldn’t dream of hurting anyone.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife