Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
Agatha ChristieRead
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
Interpretation
Collaboration in writing can lead to unequal distribution of effort and reward.
In this quote, Agatha Christie reflects on the dynamics of co-authorship, suggesting that collaboration often leads to tension over the division of labor and financial rewards. She implies that when two writers contribute to the same work, there can be a sense of imbalanced involvement, with each believing they bear the majority of the burden, which often complicates the creative process.
In practice
Discussing the merits of solo writing versus collaborative projects in a writer's workshop.
Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.
Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.
Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement
No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot
For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.
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