Great Writing Quotes by Author P.G. Wodehouse

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

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

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