Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.” ~ Agatha Christie [Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, Lady Mallowan] (1890-1976) English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott