Agatha Christie Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

  Agatha Christie

  New York, Writing, Cities

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

  Agatha Christie

  Work, Writing, Commitment

• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

  Agatha Christie

  Time, Book, Memorable

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, Book, Memorable

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

  Agatha Christie

  Book, Writing, Months

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

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, People, Lucky

  Agatha Christie (1993). “Elephants can remember”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Shy, Aptitude

  Agatha Christie (1988). “Mrs. McGinty's Dead”, Bantam Books

• God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Soul, Stories

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Autobiography, Sooner Or Later

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

• The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, History, Generations

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Mysterious Mr Quin”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

• I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Should Have, Imagine

• Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

  Agatha Christie

  Dog, Book, Writing

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

• 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 meals was also suitable.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Typewriters, Dining

• In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Mind, Flaws

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

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, People, Comfort

• I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Letters, Originality

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