The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.Letter to...

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne 8 September 1935
Dorothy L. Sayers

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Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual man or woman fat or thin tall or short ugly or beautiful who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.
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Salcombe Hardy groaned How long O Lord how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic Murderers learn it now at their mothers knee.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne 8 September 1935 Dorothy L. Sayers

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne 8 September 1935
Dorothy L. Sayers