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Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

“Advertise, or go under.”

Work

In this detective novel, the protagonist is an advertising executive who solves a series of murders within the industry. more

Author

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers was an English writer renowned for her detective novels. Her works are celebrated for their unique literary style and profound insights into criminal psychology. Sayers' detective novels typically feature the character of Valery West, a female detective, whose stories offer not only suspenseful plots but also delve into moral and philosophical issues. more

“Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.”

Form Three Courses Mass Blow Bread Advertising Meals Gas Quantity Suitable Crude Misrepresentation Yeast

Book:Murder Must Advertise

Source: Murder Must Advertise

“I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.”

Thinking Men Age Past Certain Grows Aging

Book:Whose Body?

Source: Whose Body?

“The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.”

Way Artist Creative Strange Pursue Mysterious Innocence Unconscious Mysterious Ways

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.”