Anthony Horowitz Quotes

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

Love, Around, Between

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

Family, Money, Successful

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

Fame, Fortune, Characters

Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.
Anthony Horowitz

Devil, Figure, Tail

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.
Anthony Horowitz

Publishers, Everywhere, Squeezed

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

Good, Positive, Negative

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

School, Useless, Subject

I do believe quite strongly in evil.
Anthony Horowitz

Evil, Quite, Strongly

I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'
Anthony Horowitz

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.
Anthony Horowitz

I enjoy scaring people.
Anthony Horowitz

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

School, Three, Found

I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.
Anthony Horowitz

Great, Belief, Unless

I love writing different things.
Anthony Horowitz

Love, Writing, Different

I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
Anthony Horowitz

Work, Sleep, Start

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.
Anthony Horowitz

Age, Happy, Remember

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.
Anthony Horowitz

Victim, Private, Peculiar

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.
Anthony Horowitz

Money, Dead, Books

I'm not good at the modern world.
Anthony Horowitz

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.
Anthony Horowitz

Happy, Simple, Hand

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
Anthony Horowitz

Good, Write, Creating

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

School, Children, Parents

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.
Anthony Horowitz

Children, Parents, Literature

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

Hard, Kids, Write

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.
Anthony Horowitz

Father, Strange, Distant

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Nationality: English

Born: April 5, 1955

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