Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Animal Farm is not a book about how pigs—animals—when bestowed with power start to behave like men. It is a book about… — 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
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The Animal Farm is a well written book in comprehensive english. George Orwell compares the communist Russian political system trying to make… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I often have the feeling that even at the best of times literary criticism is fraudulent, since in the absence of any… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be… — 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
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
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
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
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
