Anthony Horowitz

I love writing different things. ”

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life. ”

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. ”

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

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents. ”

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. ”