More quotes by P.G. 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)"
"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."
"I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose."
"As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight."
"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."