My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. – Anthony Horowitz
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser. – Anthony Horowitz
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. Im phobic about it. So when Im 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
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. – Anthony Horowitz
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. – Jhumpa Lahiri