She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. - Agatha Christie

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined — -sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured — -so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.