Agatha Christie Book Quotations

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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.

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

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

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

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.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

Books are a habit-forming drug.