Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.' — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The house is seventies modern with sliding windows, gas-effect and a giant TV in the living room. There are almost no books.… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“You'd have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I'd have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
You like to think with young adults that with your books, a little part of it has reached them and will stay… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“I had devoted my whole life to books; to bookshops; to booksellers; to bookish people like Charles and Alan. And in doing… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
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,… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“By the time Dimitrov realised what had happened, it was too late. He had taken aim but Bond had already fired. Three bullets spat… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You're not going to tell me you're afraid of a little prick?" "I wouldn't call… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color;… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
