“Poirot thought it not quite professional to begin a routine working day before ten.”

“A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.”

“Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit."[Ten rules for writing fiction (part two), The Guardian, 20 February 2010]”

“You weren't quite accurate just now." "I? Not accurate?" Poirot sounded affronted.”

“You should never lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning long gone before that time. A person who has not done one half of his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”