Anthony Horowitz Quotes

• You like to think with young adults that with your books, a little part of it has reached them and will stay with them. It is great to be part of an eight-year-old’s world.

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• There’s something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you’re an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it’s good to add colour.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world’s worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.

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• You don’t need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller – as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

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• Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

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• Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you’re dealing with something that doesn’t really exist.

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• Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.

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• Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.

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• No writer can really sustain two huge – I hate the word ‘franchises.’

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• 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.

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• My perfect reader doesn’t just read – he or she devours books.

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• My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

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• My generation has left the globe in a mess.

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• 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.

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Anthony Horowitz (46)

Birth:	5th April, 1955
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Anthony Horowitz is a prolific English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His work for children and teenagers includes The Diamond Brothers series, the Alex Rider series, and The Power of Five series. His work for adults includes the novel and play Mindgame and the Sherlock Holmes novel The House of Silk. He has also written extensively for television, contributing numerous scripts to ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot and Midsomer Murders.

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