Quotes by Orwell, George

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoi >>

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. >>

He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it. >>

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write >>

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. >>

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

Orwell, George