Anthony Horowitz

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. ”

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library. ”

If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents. ”

Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date. ”

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household. ”

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. ”

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

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again. ”

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. ”

I'm not good at the modern world. ”