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.

Quote by Agatha Christie

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves...

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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

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

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the...

Like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through...

Like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the...

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still...

Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still...

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think,...

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think,...

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows...

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows...

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

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

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and...

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and...

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that...

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that...

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and...

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and...

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give...

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give...

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as...

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as...

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a...

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a...