James Tupper Quotes

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just write one book, then another, and then another, because the young adults who wrote me told me that they wanted to read more.

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.

That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

What I did do a lot as a child was read, and I particularly remember reading all the 'Hardy Boys' books, a set of history books called the 'Landmark Books,' and a series of science books called the 'All About Books.'

Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.

I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Late summer is perfect for classic mysteries - think of Raymond Chandler's hot Santa Anas and Agatha Christie's Mediterranean resorts - while big ambitious works of nonfiction are best approached in September and early October, when we still feel energetic and the grass no longer needs to be cut.

We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

I love the whole mystery-detective genre - I love all of that.

My relationship with the 'Baby-Sitters Club' series bordered on addiction, and my mom got me heavily into the Trixie Belden mysteries as well. Trixie Belden was like Nancy Drew, but without the boyfriends and cute outfits, which I think is the reason my mother preferred her.

I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.

I was reading Agatha Christie as a little boy.