“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.”

English novelist and screenwriter

Anthony Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter known for mystery and suspense. He is especially associated with children’s and young adult fiction and has 79 quotes on the site. His best-known work includes the Alex Rider series, about a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, along with The Power of Five series and The Diamond Brothers series. Across these books, he writes with a strong focus on danger, investigation, and adventure.