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Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

Anthony Horowitz

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.

Anthony Horowitz

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

Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.

Anthony Horowitz

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

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.

Anthony Horowitz

I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'

Anthony Horowitz

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

Anthony Horowitz

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

Anthony Horowitz

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

Anthony Horowitz

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

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.

Anthony Horowitz

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

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

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

Anthony Horowitz

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

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.

Anthony Horowitz

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

Anthony Horowitz

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

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.

Anthony Horowitz

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

Anthony Horowitz

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

Anthony Horowitz

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.

Anthony Horowitz