345 Quotes by Anthony Horowitz

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

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.

If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.

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.

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

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.

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

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.