I love writing different things.

- Anthony Horowitz

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

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

- Anthony Horowitz

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.

- Anthony Horowitz

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.

- Anthony Horowitz

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.

- Anthony Horowitz

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.

- Anthony Horowitz

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.

- Anthony Horowitz

Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.

- Anthony Horowitz

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

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

I enjoy scaring people.

- Anthony Horowitz

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

- Anthony Horowitz

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

- Anthony Horowitz

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

- Anthony Horowitz

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

- Anthony Horowitz

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.

- Anthony Horowitz

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

- Anthony Horowitz

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

- 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