“First, you have to think and think and think and think; then you have to force yourself to write it down.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“It was not until I was over twenty that I realised that my home standard had been unusually high and that actually… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
fiction is founded on truth…unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it! — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“A child says ‘Thank God for my good dinner’. What can I say at seventy-five? ‘Thank God for my good life, and for all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Either her dream had taken a very odd turn or else - or else Mary had really rushed into the room and had said… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried, "I've only just realized it! That rascal, with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“The old gentleman refuses to have the telephone which he regards as a device of the devil, and on a par with radio, television,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“That’s how they do it, these girls! Othello charmed Desdemona by telling her stories, but, oh, didn’t Desdemona charm Othello by the way she… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie Copy Share
“Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share
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