He wrote over 100 novels in under 90 years, with minimum variation along the way, producing ink rather more in the manner of a squid than a writer.
--Tom Shone, "Wodehouse and Beckett: Their Secret Kinship Revealed", The New York Observer, Nov 22nd 2004
Shone on Wodehouse
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