If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: humor selfishness
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.
P.G. WodehouseThere are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
"The mood will pass, sir.
Stichwörter: humor clothes bad-mood appearance dejection
He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: humor life melancholy misfortune
I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.
P.G. WodehouseNo novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: absurd
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: life writing dismissal
-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?'
There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter
Stichwörter: time ties wodehouse
[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 more than a big slab of prose at the start."
(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)
Stichwörter: writing creative-process dialogue
Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.
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