Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

I enjoy scaring people.

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.

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

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

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

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

For all men are equal at the moment of death and who are we to judge them when a much greater judge awaits?

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.

When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.

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.

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

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

Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.

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

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

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.

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.

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

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.

You're never too young to die.

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.

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.

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.