I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don’t want to, don’t much like what you are writing and aren’t writing particularly well. That was the moment when I changed from being an amateur to a professional. I was driven on by the desire, indeed the necessity, to write another book and make some money. I knew, as one might say, where I was going, but I could not see the scene in my mind’s eye, and the people would not come alive. I had worked out the plot – a conventional plot, partly adapted from one of my other stories. To begin with I had no joy in writing, no élan. In her autobiography she wrote that it had not been easy writing it and that she had always “hated” it: Agatha Christie didn’t enjoy writing The Mystery of the Blue Train (first published in 1928).
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