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Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

— W. H. Auden

I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to…

— Jill Lepore

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

— Atul Gawande

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely…

— George Woodcock

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. When you have someone like Cheney who talks…

— John Pilger

You know, like, none of us would choose - no matter where we are in the world - would choose to you know become…

— Sheena Iyengar

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing…

— Melvin Burgess

I like Malcolm Gladwell.

— C. J. McCollum

“George Orwell wrote disparagingly of “the masochism of the English Left”: its readiness to ally with any cause, however vile, provided it was sufficiently…

— Daniel Hannan

I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you.

— Dave Finkel

When I became obsessed with Winston Churchill, I wrote a book about Churchill. What a joy it was to write that book!

— Gretchen Rubin

Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece…

— Philip Roth