Anthony Horowitz Quotes

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

Technology must remain a tool. It's a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It's not the book. If you have a great pen, maybe you'll write faster or it will look better, but at the end, you have something to say, or you don't.

All I'm about is just the pen.

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

The arm which should have launched the thunderbolt was occupied in guiding the pen.

See this pen! I can end your lives with a stroke of this pen!

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.