“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I do hope you'll forgive me if I overwhelm you with talk. When I meet somebody who's heard that books exist, I'm… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But, he realised, even in his panic he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by shutting the book while the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Reading Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge's brilliant and depressing book, "The Thirties", I thought of a rather cruel trick I once played on a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Julia had once been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“This process of con- tinuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been re-painted, every statue and street and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the Junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
