Anthony Horowitz Book Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#4. he who speaks parables knows and understands the real meaning of parables better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

Angel Olsen

#6. I hate telling people this. I never know exactly how my voice is going to sound saying it, and I hate the stricken looks they get on their faces when they don't know what to say back.

Kendare Blake

#7. My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

Anthony Horowitz

#8. We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other's pain. Maybe that's why we all feel like failures so often - because we all have the wrong job description for love.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#9. Find yourself, who are you?
Choose yourself, who can you be?
Define yourself to find your destination.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.

Neil Young

#11. 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

#12. Islam never tells people to go out and kill other people.

Abderrahmane Sissako

#13. Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.

William McIlvanney

#14. Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Susan Sontag

#15. Misery is okay; laughter is a disturbance.

Osho

#16. Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

Walt Whitman

#17. Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.

Joshua Chamberlain

#18. ... my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me ... "
"I've never much cared for horror stories.

Anthony Horowitz