Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: June 13, 1893 - December 17, 1957
Birthday: June 13
Death: December 17
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.
source: Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.126, Macmillan
topic: Fun, Views, Justice, Stealth, Detective Stories, Mystery Novels
