There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pen…

Agatha Christie
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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off. ✨ Agatha Christie (1991). Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, Berkley Publishing Group
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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off. ✨ Agatha Christie (1991). Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, Berkley Publishing Group

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