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WODEHOUSE P. G.: (1881-1975)
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WODEHOUSE P. G.: (1881-1975) English writer, creator of Jeeves and Wooster. An amusing signed souvenir typescript copy of an extract from Wodehouse´s autobiographical work Over Seventy, seven pages (separate leaves), n.p., n.d. The text bears the title My Methods, Such as They Are and states, in part, ´And now, to conclude, I see that you ask me to tell you what are my methods of work, and I am wondering if here your questionnaire has not slipped a cog and gone off the right lines. Are you sure your radio and newspaper public want to know? I ask because I have never been able to make myself believe that anything about my methods of work can possibly be of interest to anyone. Sometimes on television I have been lured into describing them, and always I have had the feeling that somebody was going to interrupt with that line of Jack Benny´s - "There will now be a slight pause while everyone says ´Who cares?´".......I would like to say, as I have known other authors to say, that I am still at my desk every morning at nine sharp, but something tells me I could never get away with it.....I do get to my desk, however, round about ten, and everything depends then on whether or not I put my feet up on it......Many of my deepest thoughts have come to me when I have my feet up on the desk, but I have never been able to fit one of them into any novel I have been writing. If I avoid this snare, I pull chair up to typewriter, adjust the Peke which is lying on my lap, chirrup to the foxhound, throw a passing pleasantry to the cat and pitch in. All the animals of the household take a great interest in my literary work, and it is rare for me to begin the proceedings without a quorum. I sometimes think I could concentrate better in solitude, and I wish particularly that the cat would give me a word of warning before jumping on the back of my neck as I sit trying to find the mot juste, but I remind myself that conditions might be worse. I might be dictating my stuff. How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I can imagine. Yet many authors think nothing of saying "Ready, Miss Spelvin? Take dictation. Quote No comma Sir Jasper Murgatroyd comma close quotes comma said no better make it hissed Evangeline comma quote I would not marry you if you were the last man on earth period close quotes Quote Well comma I´m not comma so the point does not arise comma close quotes replied Sir Jasper comma twirling his moustache cynically period And so the long day wore on period. End of chapter"........Nor would I be more happy and at my ease with one of those machines where you talk into a mouthpiece and have your observations recorded on wax. I bought one of them once and started Right Ho, Jeeves on it. I didn´t get beyond the first five lines......I sold the machine next day, and felt like the Ancient Mariner when he got rid of the albatross......My writing, if and when I get down to it, is a combination of longhand and typing. I generally rough out a paragraph or a piece of dialogue in pencil on a pad and then type an improved version.......I am fortunate as a writer in not being dependent on my surroundings......I have written quite happily on ocean liners during gales, with the typewriter falling into my lap at intervals, in hotel bedrooms, in woodsheds, in punts on lakes, in German internment camps and in the Inspecteurs room at the Palais de Justice in Paris at the time when the French Republic suspected me of being a danger to it......To me a detailed scenario is, as they say, of the essence. Some writers will tell you that they just sit down and take pen in hand and let their characters carry on as they see fit. Not for me any procedure like that. I wouldn´t trust my characters an inch........They have to do just what the scenario tells them to, and no larks. It has always seemed to me that planning a story out and writing it are two separate things......Anyone who reads a novel of mine can be assured that it will be as coherent as I can make it - which, I readily agree, is not saying much......´ Signed (´P. G. Wodehouse´) by Wodehouse in bold black ink with his name alone at the conclusion. VGThe autobiographical work Over Seventy, from which the present extract was taken, was first published in the United States (with the title America, I Like You) in 1956 and included a collection of articles originally written for Punch magazine. The work was considerably expanded for publication in the United Kingdom in 1957 with the Over Seventy title and the subtitle An Autobiography with Digressions.
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WODEHOUSE P. G.: (1881-1975) English writer, creator of Jeeves and Wooster. An amusing signed souvenir typescript copy of an extract from Wodehouse´s autobiographical work Over Seventy, seven pages (separate leaves), n.p., n.d. The text bears the title My Methods, Such as They Are and states, in part, ´And now, to conclude, I see that you ask me to tell you what are my methods of work, and I am wondering if here your questionnaire has not slipped a cog and gone off the right lines. Are you sure your radio and newspaper public want to know? I ask because I have never been able to make myself believe that anything about my methods of work can possibly be of interest to anyone. Sometimes on television I have been lured into describing them, and always I have had the feeling that somebody was going to interrupt with that line of Jack Benny´s - "There will now be a slight pause while everyone says ´Who cares?´".......I would like to say, as I have known other authors to say, that I am still at my desk every morning at nine sharp, but something tells me I could never get away with it.....I do get to my desk, however, round about ten, and everything depends then on whether or not I put my feet up on it......Many of my deepest thoughts have come to me when I have my feet up on the desk, but I have never been able to fit one of them into any novel I have been writing. If I avoid this snare, I pull chair up to typewriter, adjust the Peke which is lying on my lap, chirrup to the foxhound, throw a passing pleasantry to the cat and pitch in. All the animals of the household take a great interest in my literary work, and it is rare for me to begin the proceedings without a quorum. I sometimes think I could concentrate better in solitude, and I wish particularly that the cat would give me a word of warning before jumping on the back of my neck as I sit trying to find the mot juste, but I remind myself that conditions might be worse. I might be dictating my stuff. How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I can imagine. Yet many authors think nothing of saying "Ready, Miss Spelvin? Take dictation. Quote No comma Sir Jasper Murgatroyd comma close quotes comma said no better make it hissed Evangeline comma quote I would not marry you if you were the last man on earth period close quotes Quote Well comma I´m not comma so the point does not arise comma close quotes replied Sir Jasper comma twirling his moustache cynically period And so the long day wore on period. End of chapter"........Nor would I be more happy and at my ease with one of those machines where you talk into a mouthpiece and have your observations recorded on wax. I bought one of them once and started Right Ho, Jeeves on it. I didn´t get beyond the first five lines......I sold the machine next day, and felt like the Ancient Mariner when he got rid of the albatross......My writing, if and when I get down to it, is a combination of longhand and typing. I generally rough out a paragraph or a piece of dialogue in pencil on a pad and then type an improved version.......I am fortunate as a writer in not being dependent on my surroundings......I have written quite happily on ocean liners during gales, with the typewriter falling into my lap at intervals, in hotel bedrooms, in woodsheds, in punts on lakes, in German internment camps and in the Inspecteurs room at the Palais de Justice in Paris at the time when the French Republic suspected me of being a danger to it......To me a detailed scenario is, as they say, of the essence. Some writers will tell you that they just sit down and take pen in hand and let their characters carry on as they see fit. Not for me any procedure like that. I wouldn´t trust my characters an inch........They have to do just what the scenario tells them to, and no larks. It has always seemed to me that planning a story out and writing it are two separate things......Anyone who reads a novel of mine can be assured that it will be as coherent as I can make it - which, I readily agree, is not saying much......´ Signed (´P. G. Wodehouse´) by Wodehouse in bold black ink with his name alone at the conclusion. VGThe autobiographical work Over Seventy, from which the present extract was taken, was first published in the United States (with the title America, I Like You) in 1956 and included a collection of articles originally written for Punch magazine. The work was considerably expanded for publication in the United Kingdom in 1957 with the Over Seventy title and the subtitle An Autobiography with Digressions.
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