Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.

I can't exist without books.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.