A biography for Anthony Horowitzhasn’t been written yet.
“Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.”
“You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.”
“I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.”
“I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.”
“Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.”
“Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place for us to hide.”
“I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.”
“My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.”
“I'm not good at the modern world.”
“Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.”
“I do believe quite strongly in evil.”
“You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.”
“No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'”