“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his… — 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
“To dislike a writer’s politics is one thing. To dislike him because he forces you to think is another, not necessarily incompatible… — 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
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects on prose. There is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you? — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — 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
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