“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to release it.”
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“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: An Autobiography
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
“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.”
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“To be part of something one doesn't in the least understand is, I think, one of the most intriguing things about life.”
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
― Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
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