“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
“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ” — 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
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to… — 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
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“There you are, Ariadne,” said Robin. “The whole plot of your next novel presented to you. All you’ll have to do is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that… — 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 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 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
God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies!… — 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
I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“only had to write the play that I was already thinking of. Plays are much easier to write than books, because you… — 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 contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. — 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
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
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between… — 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
