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. – Anthony Horowitz
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it’s hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions. – Anthony Horowitz
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. – Anthony Horowitz
I didn’t really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything. – Anthony Horowitz
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. – Anthony Horowitz
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library. – Anthony Horowitz
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. – Anthony Horowitz
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. – Anthony Horowitz
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. – Anthony Horowitz
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. – Anthony Horowitz
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you’re dealing with something that doesn’t really exist. – Anthony Horowitz
I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight. – Anthony Horowitz
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way. – Anthony Horowitz
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. – Anthony Horowitz
If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I’d send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents. – Anthony Horowitz
