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
There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.
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.
He died fighting for what he believed in.
Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.
There's a dream world that we visit sometimes and that's how we found out who we are.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.
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.
Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.
It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.
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.
I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.