Agatha Christie: Sausage Machine

When asked about her writing method, Christie responded, “The disappointing truth is, I haven’t much method.” She worked out her plots in school exercise books, making lists of victims, culprits, and MOs, and then picking the best combinations. For most of her life, she pumped out one novel per year, admitting that she often felt like “a sausage machine.”

On writing, she said, “Three months seems to me to be quite reasonable to finish a book, if you can get right down to it.”