Quotes by Orwell, George

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

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are >>

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certa >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but mo >>

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. >>

I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and put >>

He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.

Orwell, George