"To say that one cannot produce a good novel within the discipline of a formal structure is as foolish as to say that no sonnet can be great poetry since a sonnet is restricted to fourteen lines -- an octave and a sestet -- and a strict rhyming sequence."
-PD James Talking About Detective Fiction
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