Quotes by Orwell, George

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, an >>

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all >>

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of thei >>

Quotations about Literature

There can be no literary equivalent to truth. >>

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with wh >>

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous >>

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

Orwell, George