Quote

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

Agatha Christie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
Autobiographer
Dramaturge
Novelist
Nurse
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
Three
Seems
Book
Right
Writing
Reasonable
Time
Complete
Months
Quite

More quotes by Agatha Christie

Image
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
Agatha Christie
Image
The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.
Agatha Christie
Image
Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.
Agatha Christie
Image
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
Image
It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.
Agatha Christie
Image
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
Agatha Christie
Image
Books are a habit-forming drug.
Agatha Christie
Image
Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
Agatha Christie
Image
You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.
Agatha Christie
Image
Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.
Agatha Christie
Image
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Agatha Christie
Image
There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
Agatha Christie
Image
I've got a stomach now as well as a behind. And I mean - well, you can't pull it in both ways, can you? ... I've made it a rule to pull in my stomach and let my behind look after itself.
Agatha Christie
Image
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
Agatha Christie
Image
It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
Agatha Christie
Image
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.
Agatha Christie
Image
Time is the best killer.
Agatha Christie
Image
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Agatha Christie
Image
there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
Agatha Christie
Image
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.
Agatha Christie