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““I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again, and this after filling 400 words with notes, mostly delirious, before getting into anything in the nature of a coherent scenario.””

P.G. Wodehouse

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“Love, Miss Halliday, is a delicate plant. It needs tending, nurturing, assiduous fostering. This cannot be done by throwing the breakfast bacon at a…

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“[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…

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“In these days in which we live, when existence has become a thing of infinite complexity and fate, if it slips us a bit…

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“Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don’t know?’ ‘I couldn’t say, sir.”

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“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…

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“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…

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“Too often on such occasions one feels, as I feel so strongly with regard to poor old Stilton, that the kindly thing to do…

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“My late Uncle Henry, you see, was by way of being the blot on the Wooster escutcheon. An extremely decent chappie personally, and one…

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“...he switched on the [flashlight]. When he did so, he instantly became the center attraction to a rowdy mob of those gnats, moths, and…

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“Conversationally, I am like a clockwork toy. I have to be set going.”

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“One of the advantages a sister has when arguing with a brother is that she is under no obligation to be tactful. If she…

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“Liz," said Mr. Cootes, lost in admiration, "when it comes to doping out a scheme, you're the snake's eyebrows!”

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