Creative Quotations from P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)

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.

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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.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

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.