Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.” — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable,… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“the march of civilisation has given the modern girl a vocabulary and an ability to use it which her grandmother never had” — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and forgotten to say 'when'!” — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image