Anthony Horowitz: writers should not be told to make books more diverse
Briefly

There are as many female murderers in my books as male ones. I am very pro equal opportunities, I am very pro multiethnic, I am very pro books being about as much of the world as you can fit into a single book. What I'm not pro is anybody telling me that that is what I have to do.
I'm not so stupid that I'm going to write something that is going to offend an ethnicity or a community of people. He is not a very nice man, James Bond.
A literary Bond only works in his own timeline – his Bond books are all set in the 1950s and 60s.
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