Top 47 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.

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

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

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