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
I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.
Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.
But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.
So it's a coincidence. Just like you said. Two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. They're both killed in accidents. Why are you so interested?" "Because I don't like coincidence," Blunt replied. "In fact, I don't believe in coincidence. Where some people see coincidence, I see conspiracy. That's my job.
The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.
I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.
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'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.
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Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.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.