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Book Quotes by George Orwell
- For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace…
- The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in…
- The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.
- The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened…
- Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
- Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed,…
- It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose…
- The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.
- The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
- Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.
- In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse…
- The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
- Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards…
- Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one…
- Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy,…
- Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.
- If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas.…
- Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
- It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product…
- And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less…
- The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work…
- There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude…
- When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write…
- The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses…
- All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood