“[A]lways 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
“Writing my books I enjoy. It is the thinking them out that is apt to blot the sunshine from my life.” — P.G. Wodehouse 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
“[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Love, Miss Halliday, is a delicate plant. It needs tending, nurturing, assiduous fostering. This cannot be done by throwing the breakfast bacon at a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“In these days in which we live, when existence has become a thing of infinite complexity and fate, if it slips us a bit… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don’t know?’ ‘I couldn’t say, sir.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Ask the first lion cub you meet, and it will tell you that, once you’ve tasted blood, there is no pulling up, and it’s… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He will lunch with you at your flat tomorrow at one-thirty. Please remember that he drinks no wine, strongly disapproves of smoking, and can… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Too often on such occasions one feels, as I feel so strongly with regard to poor old Stilton, that the kindly thing to do… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“My late Uncle Henry, you see, was by way of being the blot on the Wooster escutcheon. An extremely decent chappie personally, and one… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“...he switched on the [flashlight]. When he did so, he instantly became the center attraction to a rowdy mob of those gnats, moths, and… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Conversationally, I am like a clockwork toy. I have to be set going.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“One of the advantages a sister has when arguing with a brother is that she is under no obligation to be tactful. If she… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Liz," said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, "when it comes to doping out a scheme, you're the snake's eyebrows!” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
