A biography for Anthony Horowitzhasn’t been written yet.
“I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.”
“Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.”
“If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.”
“If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.”
“I enjoy scaring people.”
“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.”
“I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.”
“She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.”
“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.”
“Nice day for a funeral.”
“Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.”
“Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.”
“Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.”
“The world was healing itself.”
“Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.”
“I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.”
“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.”
“As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.”
“We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.”
“It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.”