1. “First you’ve got to think of something, and when you’ve thought of it you’ve got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That’s all.”
2. “It’s no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius — some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman… You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas; but you must submit to the discipline of form.”
3. “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.
4. “The more passionately alive the victim, the more glorious indignation I have on his behalf, and am full of delighted triumph when I have delivered a near-victim out of the valley of the shadow of death.”
5. “There always has to be a lapse of time after the accomplishment of a piece of creative work before you can in any way evaluate it.”
6. “Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.”
7. “When you begin to write, you are usually in the throes of admiration for some writer, and, whether you will or no, you cannot help copying their style. Often it is not a style that suits you, and so you write badly. But as time goes on you are less influenced by admiration. You will admire certain writers, you may even wish you could write like them, but you know quite well that you can’t. I have learned that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.”
8. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
9. “ 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.”
10. “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
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born September, 15th, 1890, Torquay, Devon, England, England, United Kingdom, and died January, 12th, 1976, , Oxfordshire, England. Christie was an English author who wrote 66 detective novels, 14 short story collections, the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, and six romances novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie is the world’s best author of all time, having sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. She is a giant of the literature world, and a legend that will span decades and centuries.
“Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.” ~ Agatha Christie
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