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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., 8 September 1935)
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., 8 September 1935)
Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
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- Dorothy L. Sayers
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- Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1893 to 1957; Wikidata Q106740, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106740 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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