Bob Brody, you may not yet have achieved great heights as a novelist, but your genius as an inventor should guarantee your immortality (‘Stay true to yourself – and fly closer to the sun’: what I’ve learned from 50 years of rejection, 8 October). The illustration published with your article shows you at work on your typewriter, which appears to take in shredded paper and convert it to a sheet of A4 as you type. Genius.
Noel Chidwick
Edinburgh

I enjoyed Bob Brody’s piece on learning to live with rejection, but I’m not expecting this letter to be published.
Lindsay Camp
Bristol

Further to the correspondence about leftovers (Letters, 7 October), some years ago I was watching a dessert cookery programme with my mother-in-law. When the host suggested using stale sponge cake as a base, she exclaimed: “Stale? I didn’t even know it went cold!” This is now family folklore.
Margaret Clarke
Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia

Re your article (Two hours of exercise a week reduces joint pain and visits to GP, 5 October), as the adage goes, “motion is lotion, rest is rust”.
Joanna Rimmer
Newcastle upon Tyne

Was the misspelling of Britain as “Britian” on chocolate bars handed out at the Conservative party conference an example of a failure in the use of IA (Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate, 6 October)?
Barry Coomber
Pinner, London