Ngaio Marsh quotes

Ngaio Marsh was a renowned New Zealand crime writer and theatre director, celebrated for her detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn. Her works are considered classics of the Golden Age of detective fiction. She also made significant contributions to the development of professional theatre in New Zealand. Here are 2 of her quotes:

We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it. (Ngaio Marsh)

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Ngaio Marsh

Ngaio Marsh

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Occupation: New Zealander Writer
Born: April 23, 1895
Died: February 18, 1982
Quotes count: 2

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