Essays Quote by Anthony Bourdain

One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and is one…

— Hozier

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've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'

— Alexander Skarsgard

Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material…

— Christopher Hitchens

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

— Andrej Pejic

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

— Atul Gawande

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

— Aravind Adiga

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great…

— Steven Wright

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

— William Shatner

I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested on one…

— Larry Ellison

One of the best and most challenging books about Orwell is by the socialist literary critic Raymond Williams. As a critic - and, in…

— Keith Gessen