Anthony Horowitz Quotes

Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.

You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

You have to go into rehab after doing a David Walliams book. David is such an important man; publishers rate him very, very highly, His books usually go straight to the bestseller number one spot on the day of publication. He is a hugely important writer as far as HarperCollins, his publishers, are concerned.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

B is for bestseller.

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.