If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to… — 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
“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
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is… — 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
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
