345 Quotes by Anthony Horowitz

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

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

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.

I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.

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.

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.

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.