It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge t….

One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice..

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price..

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it..

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery..

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

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not ta….

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incid….

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it..

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one..

People should be interested in books, not their authors..

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean..

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her..

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intel….

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some o….

fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them..

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go..

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill..

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind..

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them..