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Anthony Horowitz
English Novelist
Born: Apr 5, 1955
Happy People Think World Writing You
Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Positive Good You People Negative Believe Everybody Negative Way Meet Positive Way Way More Likely Surprise Than Large
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. Anthony Horowitz
You Writing Strong Sense Plots Call Narrative Always Got Been End Very Fiction Twists
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist. Anthony Horowitz
You Writing Spies Magic About Something Because Dealing Exist Than Really Harder
I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it. Anthony Horowitz
Great Unless About Doing Passionate Anything Belief
My father was aloof, very strange and very distant. Anthony Horowitz
Strange Father Distant Aloof Very
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
Time Book Writing Long Long Time Before Sit Down Thinking Favourite Part Ideas Up Actually Start Desk
I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is. Anthony Horowitz
Good World Worlds About Write Very Prefer Creating
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
Justice Youth People Become Prison Young Relating Pleasant Slightly Sight Locked Drawn Locked Up Look Unwillingly Issues Up Author Just Children Literacy Soapbox Young People Number
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. Anthony Horowitz
Relationships Enslaved Characters Feel Odd Fame Fame And Fortune Owe Authors Them Creations Fortune
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
Me Book People Writing Words Fear Would Would-Be About Someone Finish Write Over Know Annoying House Messages How Leave End Get Middle Ends Dying Story Then
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 Cynical Other Back Books Rush Writers Dead Make Huge Huge Fan Fan Sequels Who Now
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
You Strange Stay About Something Schoolboy Read Sherlock Sherlock Holmes Very Forever Stories Holmes English
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 Vividly Writer Loser Get Stopped Being Started
It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents. Anthony Horowitz
Parents Course Traditional Get Children Literature Rid
My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books. Anthony Horowitz
Books Perfect He He Or She She Read Reader Just
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 Day Seven All Day Week Write Days Start Sleep
I love writing different things. Anthony Horowitz
Love Writing Different Different Things Things
I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything. Anthony Horowitz
School Everything Favourite Subject Really Useless
I'm not good at the modern world. Anthony Horowitz
Good World Modern Modern World
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
Time You Simple Society Everybody Complex Charles Look Sure Understood Were Dickens Different Place Different Levels Many Now Levels
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 Unhappy Parents Somewhere Else Somewhere Else Never Occurred Were Send Children Them
I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all. Anthony Horowitz
Man Father Think Bad Bad Man
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
Myself Happy Father Thought Year Every Think Father Figure Further Kids Distressed Audience Passes Been Target Get While Little Grandfather Figure Away
My generation has left the globe in a mess. Anthony Horowitz
Generation My Generation Mess Globe Left
Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw. Anthony Horowitz
Time Change Strange Relationships Rather Writers Between Like Course Very Publishers
I do believe quite strongly in evil. Anthony Horowitz
Evil Believe Strongly Quite
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