P.G. Wodehouse in his Own Words by Barry Day & Tony Ring

Author:Barry Day & Tony Ring [DAY, BARRY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LCO000000, BIO007000
ISBN: 9781468305753
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2012-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Nonetheless, the constant process of revision invariably paid off for him and when he comes to review the finished article …

It really reads as if I had written it straight off without a pause.

Not that what he read always struck him as his best stuff:

Golly, what rot it sounds when one writes it down! Come, come, Wodehouse, is this the best you can do in the way of carrying on the great tradition of English Literature? Still, I’ll bet the plot of Hamlet seemed just as lousy when Shakespeare was trying to tell it to Ben Jonson in the Mermaid Tavern. (‘Well, Ben, see what I mean, the central character is this guy, see, who’s in love with this girl, see, but her old man doesn’t think he’s on the level, see, so he tells her – wait a minute, I better start at the beginning. Well, so this guy’s in college, see, and he’s come home because his mother’s gone and married his uncle, see, and he sees a ghost, see. So this ghost turns out to be the guy’s father …’)

(Letter to William Townend, 23 April 1932)

I sometimes wish I wrote that powerful stuff the reviewers like so much, all about incest and homosexualism.

(Letter to Denis Mackail, 28 February 1960)

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