Actual Quote by Sophie Hannah

Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.

— 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

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something…

— Laurie Graham

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

— Thomas Perry

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

— Andrea Riseborough

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I…

— Kimberley Nixon

“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

What I try to do with any of my stories, any of my novels, is make them feel very original.

— Nicholas Sparks

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

— Barbara Mertz

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay…

— Hilary Mantel