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" 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

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" I don't really like the word 'hobbies.' "

" 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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" My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is. "

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