In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.
Agatha ChristieThe contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
Agatha ChristieI've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.
Agatha ChristiePoirot said placidly, โOne does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this โ โ he tapped his egg-shaped head โ โthis, that functions!
Agatha Christie