Anthony Horowitz Quotes
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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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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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Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
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I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.
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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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I'm not good at the modern world.
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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.
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I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.
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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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I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.
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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 enjoy scaring people.
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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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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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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.
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I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
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My generation has left the globe in a mess.
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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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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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I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'
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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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I love writing different things.
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It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.
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Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.