The patron saint of outlining - the bespectacled siren who sings to me from his spotless rock - is P. G. Wodehouse. — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
“What a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw. — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.” — Wodehouse P.G Copy Share Image
“Filled with a coward rage that dares to burn but does not dare to blaze, Lord Emsworth coughed a cough that was… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“You should read Wodehouse when you're well and when you're poorly;when you're travelling, and when you're not;when you're feeling clever, and when… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“INTERVIEWER Have you ever been envious of another writer? WODEHOUSE No, never. I’m really such a voracious reader that I’m only too… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“It has been suggested that Wodehouse actually performed a great service for the Allies, by convincing the Germans that his Drones Club… — James J. O'Meara Copy Share Image
“NOW, touching this business of old Jeeves – my man, you know – how do we stand? Lots of people think I’m… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“What with one thing and another, I can't remember ever having been chirpier than at about this period in my career. Everything… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I felt most awfully braced. I felt as if the clouds had rolled away and all was as it used to be.… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
