It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.
P.G. WodehouseDark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
P.G. WodehouseI don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest of suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit.
P.G. WodehouseHow anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I can imagine. Yet many authors think nothing of saying, 'Ready, Miss Spelvin? Take dictation. Quote no comma Sir Jasper Murgatroyd comma close quotes comma said no better make it hissed Evangeline comma quote I would not marry you if you were the last person on earth period close quotes Quote well comma I'm not so the point does not arise comma close quotes replied Sir Jasper twirling his moustache cynically period And so the long day wore on period End of chapter.'
If I had to do that sort of thing I should be feeling all the time that the girl was saying to herself as she took it down, 'Well comma this beats me period How comma with homes for the feebleminded touting for custom on every side comma has a man like this succeeded in remaining at large mark of interrogation.
Sturgis had now become involved in a long story of his early manhood, and even had Soapy been less distrait he might have found it difficult to enjoy it to the full. It was about an acquaintance of his who had kept rabbits, and it suffered in lucidity from his unfortunate habit of pronouncing rabbits 'roberts', combined with the fact that by a singular coincidence the acquaintance had been a Mr. Roberts. Roberts, it seemed, had been deeply attached to roberts. In fact, his practice of keeping roberts in his bedroom had led to trouble with Mrs. Roberts, and in the end Mrs. Roberts had drowned the roberts in the pond and Roberts, who thought the world of his roberts and not quite so highly of Mrs. Roberts, had never forgiven her.
P.G. WodehouseI pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.
P.G. WodehouseWhen it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.
P.G. WodehouseThis is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
P.G. WodehouseTags: intelligence reading books literature brain-power mental-power simplemindedness
I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.
P.G. WodehouseTags: writing
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
P.G. WodehouseTags: humor movies public-relations press
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