Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz, OBEis an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His work for young adult readers includes The Diamond Brothers series, the Alex Rider series, and The Power of Five series. His work for adults includes the novel and play Mindgame, and two Sherlock Holmes novels The House of Silkand Moriarty. He is the most recent author chosen to write a James Bond novel by the Ian Fleming estate, titled Trigger Mortis...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 April 1955
CityLondon, England
Anthony Horowitz quotes about
No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'
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.
I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.
I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.
I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.
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.
My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.
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.
The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.
Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.
You're nothing if you're not special.