Writer Quotes by Agatha Christie

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

— Agatha Christie

Books are a habit-forming drug.

— Agatha Christie

fiction is founded on truth…unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.

— Agatha Christie

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie

It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

— Agatha Christie

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

— Agatha Christie

One gets infected, it is true, by the style of a work that one has been reading

— Agatha Christie

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

— Agatha Christie

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

— Agatha Christie

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

— Agatha Christie

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is…

— Agatha Christie

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken…

— Agatha Christie

“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

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

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

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

a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an…

— Agatha Christie

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

— Agatha Christie

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

“It was not until I was over twenty that I realised that my home standard had been unusually high and that actually…

— Agatha Christie

“You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will…

— Agatha Christie

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

— Agatha Christie

“First, you have to think and think and think and think; then you have to force yourself to write it down.”

— Agatha Christie

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

— Agatha Christie

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

— Agatha Christie