...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
P.G. WodehouseTag: literature p-g-wodehouse
Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who won over the long haul. Faulkner or Henry Green? I reckon the surprise champ was P.G. Wodehouse, as elegant and resourceful a prose stylist as anyone held up for our inspection here...he has turned out to be as enduring as anyone apart from Orwell. Jokes, you see. People do like jokes.
(Hornby's thoughts after reading "Enemies of Promise" by Cyril Connolly)
Tag: humor writing critic p-g-wodehouse
I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humour p-g-wodehouse thank-you-jeeves
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We Woosters can bite the bullet.
P.G. WodehouseTag: p-g-wodehouse just-enough-jeeves
A chap's bedroom – you can't get way from it – is his castle, and he has every right to look askance if gargoyles come glaring in at him.
P.G. WodehouseTag: p-g-wodehouse right-ho-jeeves
The fact that pigs were abroad in the night seemed to bring home to me the perilous nature of my enterprise.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor p-g-wodehouse right-ho-jeeves
More and more, it was beginning to be borne in upon me what a particularly difficult chap Gussie was to help. He seemed to so marked an extent to lack snap and finish. With infinite toil, you manoeuvred him into a position where all he had to do was charge ahead, and he didn't charge ahead, but went off sideways, missing the objective completely.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor p-g-wodehouse right-ho-jeeves
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