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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.

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Father, London, North, Cultured

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

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People, Other, Had, Plagiarism

I enjoy scaring people.

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Enjoy, People, Scaring

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.

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Young, Soapbox, Slightly, Locked

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.

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Surprise, Everybody, Likely, Positive Way

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.

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Need, String, Sentence, Bestseller

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

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School, Brilliant, Found, Secondary

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.

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Everybody, Sure, Charles, Dickens

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

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Father, Distant, Very, Aloof

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.

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Victim, Private, Household, Peculiar

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

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Magic, Dealing, About, Spies

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

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Always, Been, Very, Plots

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.

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Love, Magic, Creatures, Battles

I love writing different things.

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Love, Writing, I Love, Different Things

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

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Better, Before, Reader, Disappointing

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

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Fortune, Feel, Them, Authors

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

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Occurred, Somewhere Else, Send

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.

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Back, Other, Sequels, Cynical

With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

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Thought, Away, Been, Father Figure

There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.

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Very, Stories, Read, Sherlock

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

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Hate, Writer, Huge, Sustain

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.

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Book, House, About, Annoying

You like to think with young adults that with your books, a little part of it has reached them and will stay with them. It is great to be part of an eight-year-old's world.

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Think, Like, Young Adults, Reached

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.

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Add, Very, Stories, Reached

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.

- Anthony Horowitz

Boss, Through, Very, Close

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

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Think, Date, I Think, 100 Years

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

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School, Favourite, Subject, Useless

Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.

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Devil, Figure, Tail, I Believe In

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

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Happy, Simple, Unless, Pen

It's hard to write when you think every sentence is going to be read by a million kids.

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Think, Sentence, Read, Million

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