Anthony Horowitz Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

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

“Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”