English - Novelist | April 5, 1955 -
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
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Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.
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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.
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It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.
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My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
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I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
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