Quotes by Orwell, George

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

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dir >>

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversens >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret >>

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. >>

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and acc >>

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

Orwell, George