Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was a British author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the...
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
—Agatha Christie in An Autobiography
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.