Creative Quotations from . . .
P. G. Wodehouse
(1881-1975) born on Oct 15
English "novelist, humorist". "He is best known for farces of English gentry; created characters Wooster and Jeeves in "The Inimitable Jeeves," 1924."
 
   
F
I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean."

R
I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.
A
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
N
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
K
"Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""My Man Jeeves," 'Rallying Round Old George.'"
R: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
A: "In "Collier's," 31 Aug 1956; commenting on his personal writing technique."
N: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
K: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."



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