Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find — at the age of fifty, say — that a whole new life has opened before you.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.

I have always believed to write a good detective story, you must know all about detective stories.

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.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

One of the things I like about living in the country is that I can say anything I like and nobody hears me but the cows.

I suppose it is because I have been so happy that I have not wanted to write about it.

Dogs are wise. They get a lot more pleasure out of life than we do.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

I’ve always believed in doing the best I can. I’m not a perfectionist, but I do like to do things thoroughly.

I like to go round and round and round and round and round and round and round again.

The human mind is a wonderful thing. It can make you believe anything.

I have always been a happy person. I have always been a cheerful person. I have always been a contented person.