Because Quote by Sophie Hannah

Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader.…

— Sophie Hannah

I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by…

— A. S. Byatt

We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

— Andrea Riseborough

“When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.”

— Sara Sheridan

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything…

— Emilia Fox

Writing a novel that works is an extremely difficult thing to do. It requires a level of skill and dedication that always surprises me.

— Bret Easton Ellis

“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples. Death on…

— Amor Towles

Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.

— Sophie Hannah

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

— Joyce Carol Oates

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and…

— John Updike

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.

— Naomi Alderman