Quotes from Anthony Horowitz

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . ." "I've never much cared for horror stories.

…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . ." "I've never much cared for horror stories.

I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.

My favorite 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.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time." "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.

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.

You weren't in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

You like to think with young adults that with your books, a little part of it has reached them and will stay with them. It is great to be part of an eight-year-old's world.

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.

I love writing different things.

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.