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“I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.”
― Georges Simenon

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
― Agatha Christie

“Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography