Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBEwas an English crime novelist, short story writer and playwright. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott including Giant's Bread, but she is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections that she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigative work of such characters as Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, Parker Pyne, Ariadne Oliver, Harley Quin/Mr Satterthwaite and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 September 1890
CityTorquay, England
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings
Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.
That is why most great love stories are tragedies.
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.
I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.
At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
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
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.