If you’re an aspiring writer and look up to her then here are famous quotes by Agatha Christie about Writing.
“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”
“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.” – An Autobiography
"First, you have to think and think and think and think; then you have to force yourself to write it down."
“She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.” – Elephants Can Remember
“I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That's all." ~ Mrs. Oliver” – Dead Man’s Folly
"The right length for a detective story is fifty thousand words. I know it is considered by some publishers as too short. But if your book runs to more than that, I think you usually find that it would have been better if it had been shorter." – An Autobiography
“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced” – Dead man’s Folly
“The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.” – The ABC Murders
"Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head."
"When people ask “Do you put real people in your books?” the answer is that, for me, it is quite impossible to write about anyone I know, or have ever spoken to, or indeed have even heard about! For some reason, it kills them for me stone dead."
“There's a saying by some great writer or other that no man is a hero to his valet. Perhaps everyone ought to have a valet.” – Endless Night
"Toss it around, play tricks with it, work it up, tone it down, and gradually get it into shape. Then, of course, you have to start writing it. That’s not nearly so much fun – it becomes hard work." – Passenger To Frankfurt
"It was not until I was over twenty that I realized that my home standard had been unusually high and that actually I was quite as quick or quicker than the average. Inarticulate I shall always be. It is probably one of the causes that have made me a writer." – An Autobiography
"This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!" – Murder in Mesopotamia
“Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once.” – The Mysterious Affair At Styles
“I don't want to write about it at all.
I want, you see, to think about it as little as possible. Hercule Poirot was dead - and with him died a good part of Arthur Hastings.” – Curtain
“You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will never write it at all, so there has to be one delicious moment when you have thought of something, know just how you are going to write it, rush for a pencil, and start buoyed up with exaltation. You then get into difficulties, don’t see your way out, and finally manage to accomplish more or less what you first meant to accomplish, though losing confidence all the time. Having finished it, you know it is absolutely rotten. A couple of months later, you wonder if it may not be all right after all.”
"The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion." – The Mysterious Mr. Quinn
"All you need is a chair
and a table
and a typewriter
and a bit of peace"